Reading Time: < 1 minute With the COVID-19 pandemic, are you now working on your Volunteer Continuity Plan? We believe the below videos and resources will be of help. On 22 Apr 2022, our Lead Thrive-Synergist has recently shared the Volunteer Continuity Plan he developed in SHINE Children & Youth Services at the NCSS Brown Bag series on 22 Apr 2022.…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I am excited to share 3 tools which have been developed and refreshed recently to help volunteer partnerships practitioners master the A.R.T. of volunteer management, especially in this post-COVID-19 world. ‣ (A)ttracting volunteers ‣ (R)ecruiting them, and ‣ forging (T)hriving partnerships that positively impact the organizations, service users, communities, volunteers and staff members. These 3…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Meeting Needs in the “New Normal” For some of us, volunteers are the lifeline of our service delivery as we partner them to bring much-needed services to those who would need them. And this is expected to be more so, even as Singapore plans to exit the COVID-19 Circuit Breaker and Social Service Agencies (SSAs)…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Volunteer Programme Managers grow impact of non-profits through the effective engagement of an unsalaried voluntary workforce. But far from just an “external-facing” profession, it also requires “internal-facing” skills in forging a volunteer-friendly culture, so as to facilitate the synergistic partnership between volunteers and non-profit professionals and position the organization for mission success. Join us for…
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Appreciate: “to recognize how good someone or something is and to value him, her, or it” Are You One of Them? “Nobody notices, nobody cares!” If you catch these thoughts running through your mind and are often frustrated and unmotivated at work, there is a high possibility that you may be under-appreciated by your supervisors…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The Volunteer Management Circuit returned for its 3rd run. In the first 2 runs, we were privileged to help 47 social service agencies level up both their practitioners’ volunteer management capabilities and also their organizations’ volunteer programmes. On the 4 Oct 2019, we successfully kicked off Generation 3 of the circuit with another batch of…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Your organization can grow to be a powerful change agent in your community, as you carry out your mission and grow your volunteer partnerships. Humble Beginnings… The genesis of the social services we have today is in the coming together of well-intentioned individuals and volunteers who wanted to meet community needs. Here’s a recent video…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes It is here! We have spent months developing Singapore’s first-ever toolkit to measure the impact of volunteer programmes. Having been a volunteer manager myself, I have come to see the multi-faceted value that volunteer programmes bring to service users, organizations and staff, other volunteers and the community. But I also realised how it often seems…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Mention non-profit organizations and you would most definitely and naturally find the presence of a team of volunteers in them. But how do we make good sense of the role of volunteers in our non-profits and how do we strategically partner them to bring about growth in our organizations? These are the very questions we…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes You know the excitement when “the stars align” and things and circumstances just unexpectedly but miraculously come together in a positive and favourable way? Well, today is one such day for us here in Emmaus, when we see our two passions—volunteer partnerships and burnout prevention—come together, as we find this marvellous article about preventing and…
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