Building a thriving distributed organizing and nonprofit volunteer program

Recruit, cultivate, and retain the volunteers that your nonprofit needs.

Your nonprofit organization’s mission is everything, and there's so much to do to advance it.

You want to make progress in the world. But with limited staff resources and only so many hours in the day, how can organizations like yours make the deepest impact across a breadth of communities?

This is where a thriving distributed organizing and nonprofit volunteer program comes in.

Different in a few key ways from more traditional organizing and volunteer management styles, this type of program can help your nonprofit foster a deeper and more ongoing sense of community, reduce and/or refocus staff workloads, and ultimately maximize your impact. In this guide, we’ll share:

• what differentiates distributed organizing and volunteer programs from traditional programs;
• how you can recruit, cultivate, and retain the volunteers that your nonprofit needs; and
• ways technology can support your distributed volunteering and organizing program.

By evaluating your existing volunteer program, renewing your focus on recruitment and retention using distributed organizing and volunteer management techniques, and establishing strong technology processes to support your efforts, you can build a thriving and sustainable volunteer program that will propel your work forward.