2024 Democratic National Convention Committee’s Post

"What if we were able to widen the circle of people who understand Volunteer Management, and elevate this credential to a higher level, while creating a second tier of #Volunteer Management advocates?" 🌎 Check out our new FEATURE:

Have any tips for keeping your volunteer team motivated? Long-term volunteers can sometimes lose momentum or feel stagnant. As volunteer managers, it's up to us to spot this and help re-energize them. How do you handle this? ✨ **Top 5 Ways to Keep Your Volunteer Team Motivated!** ✨ 1️⃣ **Recognize Their Efforts** – A simple "thank you" or a shoutout goes a long way! 🙌 2️⃣ **Offer Growth Opportunities** – Provide training, mentorship, and new challenges to keep things exciting. 🎓 3️⃣ **Create a Sense of Community** – Foster a positive, supportive environment where volunteers feel connected and valued. 🤝 4️⃣ **Showcase Their Impact** – Regularly share how their work is making a difference in the community. 🌍 5️⃣ **Have Fun Together** – Incorporate social events or light-hearted moments to keep morale high! 🎉 #VolunteerAppreciation #TeamMotivation #CommunityImpact #VolunteerLeadership #InspireToServe

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As a #communitymanager, what assumptions do people make about your role? Here’s Christina Graham's (Senior Community Manager at The Alliance) thoughts. 🤔 Check out more videos here: https://lnkd.in/d_AawJ2y

Our job as communicators is so much more than just helping announce community days of giving and posting photos on social media afterward. Here’s what that “so much more” amounts to: - Identifying and vetting community organizations that not only align with our company mission but also have a sterling reputation. - Sometimes even making the case to do a small amount of work in the community is an uphill battle, requiring lots of behind-the-scenes conversations (what I call “socializing the idea”) as well as a formal leadership team presentation culminating in requests for yet more follow-up before making a final decision. Phew, right? Well, there’s more. - Figuring out how to help employees feel connected to whatever initiatives the company ends up selecting. OR what can be even harder is developing informal talking points to justify why the company has NOT said x or supported y while still making our CEO look good, because we’re often on the front lines receiving these inbound questions from employees. - Partnering with HR/People to ensure enough leaders will be present and as appropriate, evenly distributed among volunteer groups. Specific prep or info sessions for leaders can sometimes be appropriate as well. - Developing guidelines to teams that provide guardrails for posting about their community program participation to their own social media yet still encourage it–a delicate balance. - Seeking permission from community partners to tag them on digital properties like social media and to share photos. External partner approval of the actual posts can sometimes be required as well. Depending on company policies, explicit employee permission may be mandatory, too. - Creating a mechanism for capturing the actual community work. This can include assigning or even hiring photographers or videographers, a portal for employee photo submission, seeking employee testimonials or impact statements from partner orgs. - Cataloging all resources and materials developed for easy future access and in anticipation of the ad hoc questions like, “Do you have the contact for…?” “Do you have that group photo from…?” - Collaborating with HR/People on incorporating captured assets into talent branding (at a minimum, the careers section on the corporate website) and new hire onboarding materials. - Reporting back to the company at the next all hands meeting, supported by other efforts like intranet and digital signage posts, about the collective impact the team had. - Encapsulating the entire community effort in one tidy slide for the next board of directors meeting preread. - Including social impact initiatives in future ESG reports, as appropriate. What else did I miss?

Behind impactful work across communities, there are stories that should be told. Stories of givers, stories of receivers, and stories celebrating the power of partnership. There isn’t equity across communities when it comes to food, but there are people and organizations fighting for that equity and doing impactful work every day. It’s important for me to tell those stories because I know with each meal I prepare for my family or friends, there are many people who don’t have food to prepare for themselves or their families. Some stories are brief and simple. Others are more complex and groundbreaking. But every story is important and impactful. And the more people we connect through these stories, the greater the collective impact can be. I invite you to read these food stories at www.equalportion.com and be inspired to make a difference in your own little way. Maybe it’s your next volunteer opportunity. Maybe you’re looking for programs to scale-up or to build capacity through investment. Maybe a program in a little corner across the country inspires you to replicate in your little corner of the country. Or maybe, you just become a little more aware. Enjoy reading “A Trip to The Market” because we all deserve an equal portion.  

So, our latest Community Engagement for Communicators content is out. We talk about how trust is vital in that process. https://lnkd.in/ga-kHMxm 💲 Premium subscriber content

Stay Informed with Expert Insights! Access articles and blogs written by subject matter experts, keeping you up-to-date with the latest trends and strategies in volunteer engagement. Stay ahead of the game and enhance your organization's impact. #VolunteerSuccess

Stay Informed with Expert Insights! Access articles and blogs written by subject matter experts, keeping you up-to-date with the latest trends and strategies in volunteer engagement. Stay ahead of the game and enhance your organization's impact. #VolunteerSuccess

NEW #TuesdayTips! There are many different frameworks (approaches, systems) for volunteer engagement, so which one is best for your organization? I feature a few frameworks like my own "3 C's of Happy Volunteers: Comfort, Convenience, Connection" that use acronyms as an easy memory method, with some of my favorites by friends and colleagues Barry Altland, MAOL, Martin J Cowling, and a new-to-me approach by Mike Maddox. There is a big buffet or smorgasbord of frameworks, approaches, and systems for strategic volunteer engagement (development), so sample them all and see which one resonates or works best for you as leaders of volunteers, or mix and match to your own taste! Share your stories in the comments - have you used my "3 C's", or Barry's "HHH: Head, Heart, Hands", or Martin's SUCCESS?