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GUEST POST // Digital Waivers for Volunteers: 5 Things to Consider
Whether you’re planning a fundraising event or a regular form of your nonprofit programming, you likely rely significantly on the time and labor donated by your dedicated volunteers.
Those volunteers are important to you and your mission, so it’s imperative that you consider any risks that they assume every time they come to an event or your office to volunteer.
That’s where waivers come in handy—many nonprofits have their volunteers sign a waiver at the beginning of their volunteering engagement. A waiver protects both you and your volunteers, which helps to preserve your relationship and enables you to continue working with each other far into the future.
GUEST POST // Delegating Work to Volunteers: A Guide for Nonprofits
Over the past year, many nonprofit organizations have struggled to secure funding and keep important programs going amid the ongoing effects of the pandemic. This has resulted in a greater appreciation and reliance on volunteers.
Reliable and dedicated volunteers can be one of the greatest assets for your nonprofit, and with that comes the responsibility to ensure that each volunteer is placed in a role where they can make the most impact.
Creating a dedicated strategy for delegating volunteer work can help set your organization up for long-term success. With the help of effective tools and strategies, you can collect and store valuable information about your volunteers that will help you match each volunteer to the right role to ensure they can thrive and maximize their positive impact.
In this guide, we’ll explore the best practices and strategies for delegating work to volunteers in the following sections:
The Essential Steps of Delegating Work to Volunteers
6 Tips for Delegating to Volunteers
I love volunteers . . . I really do!
I love volunteers - when I started in nonprofit years ago I was that volunteer working a 50-hour-a-week corporate job who went home and worked another “full-time job” by volunteering for a nonprofit. Looking back, I don’t know how I did it - but I was super passionate about the mission (and single at the time!). Better yet, there were probably 10-15 other core volunteers working alongside the team - their energy really catapulted the mission and organization through those initial sticky start-up processes and early years.
But, once the organization was fully up and running with a few full-time staff members, I found it increasingly harder to use volunteers. There were timing issues, not-quite-the best-fit issues, and areas where well-meaning volunteers lacked expertise. I struggled with this - aren’t nonprofits built off the backs of volunteers?