Adhocracy

If you walked into room W184 at #ASAE18, you would have found the chairs out-of-whack, music in the air, interesting snippets of innovation in action on a rotating slide deck and lots of buzz. At the end of the 90-minutes, you would have discovered that hacking our current chapters is fun and possible. Our hackathoners […]

Providing Micro-volunteering options is more than nice, its a critical if you want to build your organization’s volunteer muscle, scout new talent and engage the busy boomer, the elusive Xer and the expressive millennial. Let’s say you get that you get it (if not, read A Checklist for an Energetic Volunteer Workforce), but you’re not sure how to “do” it. Here’s one approach based on a chapter or component key volunteer job.

Volunteers for all types of organizations are asking for change – change in how they volunteer, when they can volunteer and where they volunteer. They are asking for flexibility in their volunteering. Organizations that are responding are doing so by re-imaging their volunteer program.

Exploring how to re-imagine your volunteer program to embrace the micro-volunteering. From a session at ASAE 2016 MM&C.

Let’s tell the truth about volunteers. We know through research and practice that volunteering is changing but even the trends toward micro and virtual volunteering don’t change many truths.

What’s on your 2016 list of resolutions (you have 16 days to ponder)?
Will it be to do something innovative with your volunteer workforce?