Volunteer Retention Defined for Today’s Volunteers

Struggling with conversations around volunteer retention at your organization? Is retention a talking point you have not been asked to dive into? Is it one you avoid? Or perhaps retention is something you have not previously considered for your volunteer roles?

To many Leaders of Volunteers, volunteer retention is a known challenge. But in this Engage feature, Volunteer Management professional Lisa Marie Mooney isn’t referring to the work that Volunteer Leaders put forth to retain volunteers in meaningful service with organizations and their missions. Instead, she is referring to HOW we talk about retention. These conversations, she notes, are often a huge challenge for Volunteer Leaders who frequently must deal with the misrepresentation of volunteer retention through statistics shared within  organizational leadership.

No matter where you are in the conversations about volunteer retention, Mooney’s article will provide some guidance. And her tips and insights on some new tools to help guide you in defining the retention metric will no doubt be meaningful for both your organization and your volunteers. 

Available August 1