Help grantees build capacity to achieve mission.
Advocate
Advocate for and secure necessary resources to support strategic volunteer engagement throughout the organization. Include requests for supporting volunteer engagement in donor and grant requests.
Ensure
Ensure the organization’s volunteer engagement professional is part of the leadership team and has an appropriate, professional title (such as Director of Volunteer Engagement or Director of Volunteer Services).
Highlight
Highlight volunteer impact on the organization’s mission in reports to funders, donors and constituents. Share the impact of strategic volunteer engagement on the organization’s operations and mission—beyond simply the number of volunteers and service hours.
Include
Include working with volunteers in all written staff job descriptions, orientations and training. Engage volunteers directly in your own work as a positive example.
Support
Support your organization in becoming Service Enterprise certified and support your leader of volunteers to become a Certified Volunteer Administrator.
To learn more check out:
- Download the Alliance’s 2-page handout for entity leaders
- Partnering with Funders to Unleash the Power of Volunteers from The Leighty Foundation
- Become a Service Enterprise that strategically leverages volunteers to achieve operational efficiency and greater social impact