Engage Library

Research to Practice

Research to Practice seeks to identify, review and interpret academic and other research important to the volunteer engagement field. Because the various reports and studies are discussed in terms of their major relevance to practitioners, each of the articles is also listed in the Engage Library by subject covered.

Engaging VolunTOLDs: Making Strategic Decisions About Required Volunteers
Not long ago, Beth Steinhorn and about 140 other volunteers arrived early to a volunteer site, watched an orientation video, waited for assignments that primarily never came, and left in a few hours when told they wouldn’t be needed after all. Turns out, Steinhorn hadn’t…
Beth Steinhorn
Feature Articles
October 2026
Volunteer Recruitment – A Case Study of Change
On any given day, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri welcomes thousands of guests through its doors. During their visits, guests might encounter several of the museum’s more than 400 volunteers at multiple points. These museum volunteers – ranging from…
Beth Steinhorn, Marla Van Thournout, Denisse De Leon
Feature Articles
October 2024
Boulder, Colorado’s Flood of Change: Creating a Culture of Community and Volunteer Engagement
The devastating impacts of hurricanes and floodwaters are well known throughout the world, including nearly every region of the United States. In September 2013, a catastrophic amount of flooding besieged Boulder, Colorado, when almost a year’s amount of rain fell in just a…
Beth Steinhorn and Aimee Kane
Feature Articles
October 2018
Making the Case to Funders to Invest in Volunteer Engagement
One week after this issue launched, the 2017 National Summit on Volunteer Leadership Engagement began in St. Paul, Minn. A special track at the summit convened a group of funders (public and private foundations and other donors) who met with volunteer resources managers and…
Beth Steinhorn
Feature Articles
July 2017
Moving Beyond Program: Developing a Volunteer Engagement Strategic Plan
What does it mean to move beyond volunteers as a “program” and, instead, embrace engagement as a strategy to fulfill your mission? The shift starts by understanding the benefits of developing a strategic plan for volunteer engagement. In this article, writer Beth Steinhorn…
Beth Steinhorn
Feature Articles
January 2016

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