Practicing What We Preach: Volunteers Helping Us Too

One of the enduring mysteries of the volunteer management field is how often those who lead volunteer efforts do not build a team of volunteers to help them in their important work. Here we are, trying to get our paid staff colleagues to develop creative assignments for the right volunteers – and being frustrated when we encounter resistance to this idea – while we miss the opportunity to be role models in demonstrating how valuable volunteers are to building the organization's volunteer involvement strategy! This "oldie but goodie" article by Susan Ellis outlines how volunteer engagement coordinators could be getting some great, talented, and much-needed help themselves!