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The top reasons why people don’t volunteer (and what you can do about it)
According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, 24.9% of Americans volunteer (62.6 million), putting in a total of 7.8 billion hours annually. This percentage has been on the decline nationally over the past decade, but that doesn’t mean that your organization’s volunteer rate has to follow suit.
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Don’t miss our live webinar, Making Metrics Matter: Best Practices in Volunteer Program Benchmarking
At Points of Light’s 2018 annual conference, Service Unites, we hosted around 200 volunteer management professionals from across the country and sat down to answer the difficult questions.
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Make sense of your data with our free analytics template
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It can be difficult to evaluate the success of your volunteer program, and even harder to actually report on these metrics. If you plan to attend Points of Light’s annual conference, Service Unites 2018, make sure to attend our session on benchmarking with NAVPLG. We’ll be discussing and voting on the most important metrics to use as benchmarks industry-wide. You’ll also hear from a Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award-winning organization on how they measure volunteer engagement.
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Fort Collins Natural Areas struggled to run their robust volunteer program and public events while short on staff and resources. They utilized several different methods to track hours, registrations, and logs. From an antiquated volunteer management system to Excel to the old-school pen-and-paper method, current efforts were inefficient and ineffective.
