Supporting the previous website step, the key data fields needed to describe each of the volunteer roles for the Birkie.
Continue readingThe Birkie Catalog of Opportunities
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Category Archives: Volunteerism
Telling the Volunteer Story(ies)
To improve its volunteer management processes, the first step for the Canadian Birkebeiner Society (Birkie) took was to create a dedicated website. While this site will be folded back into the pre-existing web presence, this new site side-stepped several technical problems.
Continue readingSurveying a Sea of Description
The results of a time-limited survey of volunteer role descriptions. The common fields used and their definitions.
Continue reading(A) Typical Volunteer
A Matrix that combines two dimensions to define volunteer roles. The dimensions are the length of time for the volunteer role and the classic ARCI responsibility matrix.
Continue readingLucky 7’s in LAST VeGA
The LAST VeGA is a volunteer lifecycle model. Lucky 7’s in LAST VeGA expands on the model to include how volunteers are managed.
Continue readingA Field Guide to Volunteer Lifecycles
Volunteers and Non-Profit organization members are a rare commodity. They are hard to find, difficult to screen, expensive to replace/retain and then vanish without warning. A lifecycle model may help a small non-profit better manage its volunteer cadre.
Continue readingGMailing a SNP
A shared email is like a public space, it requires cultural norms and a few rules. This blog introduces these and builds on a series discussing Google’s products and how they can help a Small Non-Profit (SNP).
GDrive Sanity
Principles and a few housekeeping Rules to Keep your small non-profit’s GDrive from becoming a ‘dumping ground’ of files.
A GMail Starter
Used by small businesses world over, a GMail account is one tech-tool for a SNP to help it deliver on its mission and improve volunteer experience.
Non-Profits & Technology Speed Learning Event
A Small Non-Profit is typically 100% volunteer run with varying degrees talent to implement, use and sustain technology. To select the optimal degree of technology, would an online trade fair be useful? This question is considered in this draft Event-Idea.
Organizational Biology 