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Volunteer engagement: Asking and rewarding, online and in-person
Recruit and motivate volunteers to make powerful asks in real time.
Learn to treat your volunteers like valued restaurant guests- offering them a clear 'menu of options' that matches their skills, interests, and availability. Your volunteers are some of your strongest advocates, and when trained effectively, they can amplify your message in powerful ways.
Hosts Flore and Michael will share practical strategies for recruitment, recognition, and retention. From gamifying engagement to treating volunteers like valued guests, you’ll learn how to build a culture of belonging that inspires volunteers to step into leadership roles, make effective asks on your organization’s behalf, and stay for the long term.
What's on the agenda
Set up volunteers for success - Learn to create clear volunteer roles with defined skills, commitment levels, and boundaries, plus how to use NationBuilder's volunteer pages and permission sets for better onboarding
Recruit effectively with proven techniques - Master relationship-building strategies, assumptive language, hard asks, and psychological techniques like "foot in the door" and "door in the face" to motivate volunteers
Gamify volunteer engagement - Discover how to use leaderboards and recognition strategies to reward real contributions over time, with examples from successful organizations like Protect Our Winters
Leverage NationBuilder's volunteer management tools - Get hands-on demonstrations of volunteer pages, tags, paths, permission sets, and social capital filters to streamline your volunteer operations
Apply the restaurant guest analogy - Understand how to treat volunteers like valued guests by offering a "menu of options" that matches their interests, skills, and availability for maximum retention
Learn to treat your volunteers like valued restaurant guests- offering them a clear 'menu of options' that matches their skills, interests, and availability. Your volunteers are some of your strongest advocates, and when trained effectively, they can amplify your message in powerful ways.
Hosts Flore and Michael will share practical strategies for recruitment, recognition, and retention. From gamifying engagement to treating volunteers like valued guests, you’ll learn how to build a culture of belonging that inspires volunteers to step into leadership roles, make effective asks on your organization’s behalf, and stay for the long term.
Flore Blondel-Goupil
Senior Product Marketing ManagerNationBuilder
Micheal O'Neil
Senior Enterprise Account ManagerNationBuilder
What's on the agenda
Set up volunteers for success - Learn to create clear volunteer roles with defined skills, commitment levels, and boundaries, plus how to use NationBuilder's volunteer pages and permission sets for better onboarding
Recruit effectively with proven techniques - Master relationship-building strategies, assumptive language, hard asks, and psychological techniques like "foot in the door" and "door in the face" to motivate volunteers
Gamify volunteer engagement - Discover how to use leaderboards and recognition strategies to reward real contributions over time, with examples from successful organizations like Protect Our Winters
Leverage NationBuilder's volunteer management tools - Get hands-on demonstrations of volunteer pages, tags, paths, permission sets, and social capital filters to streamline your volunteer operations
Apply the restaurant guest analogy - Understand how to treat volunteers like valued guests by offering a "menu of options" that matches their interests, skills, and availability for maximum retention
