Incorporate the Power of Live Web Calls into Volunteer Management

Learn to help volunteers to better understand their own (sometimes changing) motivations for volunteering.

Tap into your own volunteer experiences to strengthen the way you lead community involvement.

Rob Jackson considers the challenges of taking volunteers through a change process—why can’t we use the same process for paid employees?

Energize President Susan J. Ellis highlights volunteer impact on several major events of 2018 and advises us how to keep volunteers in the limelight in 2019.

Funding specifically for the support of engaging volunteers remains elusive. Betsy McFarland proposes ways for leaders of volunteers to approach potential funders that may lead to more success.

Find out why Energize consultant Sheri Wilensky Burke firmly believes organizations need to stop making a distinction between volunteers and financial contributors and start thinking of them all as supporters.

Rob Jackson officially introduces himself as part of "Team Energize" and explains why he strongly feels leaders of volunteers need to take off the halo once in a while!

As summer comes to an end in the U.S. and the northern hemisphere, President Susan J. Ellis rallies the Energize “troops,” giving us a positive update on her health, future plans, and the status of Energize, today and tomorrow.

With a fresh perspective after changing careers, Andy Fryar discovers that many leaders of volunteers inadvertently sabotage their own volunteer engagement programs. He shares some of the most common mistakes he has seen out in the field.

Betsy McFarland announces an exciting new chapter for volunteer engagement in the United States—the development of a national body charged with bringing about unity and collaboration among networks, organizations, and individuals, driving a national conversation about the power and potential of volunteer engagement, and encouraging collective action for nationwide engagement strategies.