volunteer management

Are you and your youth taking part in Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service today? We hope so, and we hope you’re able to sustain the momentum you gain today and keep your young people involved in the community throughout the year.
It's Fundraising Week here at NCFY! We're re-posting some of our favorite articles from the Right on the Money series, which focuses on how youth-serving organizations can sustain their programs financially. In this article first published in December 2010, we get advice from several fundraisers on how to say "thank you" to donors and volunteers.
The holiday season will be here before we know it. If you and your youth plan end-of-year community service projects, you can plan ahead by taking advantage of some new resources.
Sometimes serendipity and hard work combine to make really good things happen. Sasha Bruce Youthwork, an organization that works with homeless and other at-risk youth in Washington, DC, last July accepted the donation of a dilapidated house at 5032 D Street NE.
The Home Depot Foundation makes grants of up to $5,000 to organizations using volunteers to improve the physical health of their communities. Grants take the form of Home Depot gift cards, which can be used for the purchase of tools, materials or services. Full announcement.
In October 2010, the Western Washington branch of Volunteers of America held a two-hour volunteer event at a local food bank near their headquarters in Everett, WA. Billed as the first of a monthly “Volunteer Night” series, the event was advertised on Facebook and scrupulously planned… and attracted only 5 people. But the organization’s volunteer services manager, Erin...
It's not enough to match young people in at-risk situations with caring adult mentors. Research shows that for mentoring to have a lasting impact, the one-on-one relationships need to have staying power. But mentoring matches are made by well-meaning strangers -- because that’s what program staff are, essentially. And even with interests in common, new mentors can struggle to make their...
Two questions keep the leaders of every mentoring program up at night. How do we recruit bright, enthusiastic, committed mentors? And once we recruit them, how do we keep them engaged?   For a group of concerned child and youth-serving organizations in Central Ohio, the answer was clear: make the mentoring experience as easy as possible for those willing to give their time.  
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