I’d like to welcome Charles Troger, PMP from Treehouse Consulting as today’s guest blogger. He’ll be teaching our upcoming workshop, scheduled for Feb 25, 2010, on “Managing for Success: Project Management for the Non-Profit Sector.” In this post Charles talks…
The following is the first of many posts that we hope you will help contribute to. As we enter 2010, and celebrate 35 years serving our community, we want to highlight the many valuable relationships we have with our members,…
Having done extensive research on Social Media over the past five months or so, I was somewhat reluctant to attend Margaret Hoegg’s beginner level presentation on Twitter. Contributing significantly to this reluctance was the fact that, of all the social…
If you’ve lived in Victoria for any length of time, you will undoubtedly have heard people talking about “the big one.” When will the big earthquake hit, we wonder. And will we be prepared when the time comes? Although it…
Today I’d like to welcome Yasmin Rampuri from the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria who has written the following guest blog post for us about her experiences taking our recent Overview of Volunteer Management certificate course. Congratulations to all 23 of…
Volunteer Victoria is pleased to welcome our new youth council volunteers to our social media team! The group first met in October to discuss how we could go about implementing social media as a part of our volunteer management…
Some of the Volunteer Victoria staff who worked on the house. L-R Tara, Bonnie, Louise, John, Val, Nick and Lornna. If you’ve walked into our office over the last month, you may have wondered where the sweet smell of candies and gingerbread were…
It seems hard to believe that the holiday season is almost upon us. Each year, around this time, we notice an increase in phone calls from people wanting to know how they can volunteer. The holidays are all about giving, so it…
In the Youth Program , we work with people under 30. Our approach to connecting with them generally relies on meeting face-to-face in classroom presentations, at career/volunteer fairs or when they drop by the office. Over the past year, we have…
The other day we held a workshop for individuals taking part in our Social Solutions project, which supports coordinators of volunteers at non-profit agencies that work in the areas of homelessness, housing, mental health and addictions. The workshop was about…
