Remove engagement volunteer

Aaron Wolowiec

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Engage volunteers, take a page from the magazine

Aaron Wolowiec

9 Secrets to Building a Volunteer Surplus – Fall 2013. The real takeaway here is that associations could (and should) take a page from the magazine when it comes to volunteer engagement. Stronger products are produced with the help of volunteer insights. Loyal volunteers are often your organization’s best advocates.

Michigan 100
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Applying Our Understanding of Personal & Social Identities Within Associations

Aaron Wolowiec

During the pandemic, I was introduced by my colleague to the University of Michigan Inclusive Campus Collaborative which seeks to foster a campus climate in which all community members feel respected, valued, and empowered to engage in the life of the university.

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Shaking Up Your Volunteer Strategy

Aaron Wolowiec

The handwriting has been on the wall – associations have consistently failed to fully resource their volunteer systems. To a certain degree, we innovated our member engagement strategy as well – and left the volunteer strategy to age another year. Here's a new volunteer management model for 2023 and what it looks like.

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Volunteer management: I gotta feeling

Aaron Wolowiec

Like many of you, I’ve been known to juggle a handful of volunteer roles in addition to my nine-to-five job at any given point in time during my association management career. Above all, people who volunteer for associations expect to be involved effectively. Volunteer leaders are unprepared for meetings. Who am I kidding?

Michigan 100
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Building a board strategy

Aaron Wolowiec

When working on complex engagements like strategic planning or developing membership value propositions, the ability of the board of directors to think and, through the staff, act strategically has consistently resulted in superior decisions,” said Dean West , president and founder of Association Laboratory Inc. A team mindset.

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Why ‘giving back’ isn’t what you need from volunteers

Aaron Wolowiec

Having volunteers is great, but you need more than people who are looking for a sense of purpose. What’s your volunteer problem? Lack of engagement, or lack of the kind of engagement you need to get important work done. Lack of engagement, or lack of the kind of engagement you need to get important work done.

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Rolling out the ORGPRO 2013 welcome mat

Aaron Wolowiec

This week, Shana Killips, chairperson of ORGPRO’s Community Engagement Subcommittee, will give us a sneak peek of what’s in store. The ORGPRO Task Force created a Community Engagement Subcommittee in 2012 to support three areas of need: 1. Member engagement reception. Help new and less experienced participants feel welcome.

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