Gone Fishin’
If you have looked around your office and realized that no one else is there – you are not alone! It is the time of the year when staff, board members, and volunteers take vacations, stay-cations, and even the occasional…
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Book Review: The Abundant Non Profit
Volunteering trends vary greatly across the world and what may be true for most other nations is not always true in Canada; like the idea that there is a shortage of volunteers. Canada has the 2nd largest voluntary sector in the world – after the…
Results of our Family Volunteering Survey
Over the past year we have identified an increasing level of community interest in family volunteering (adults and children together). This has come from families, employee groups, the media and others. As one of VV’s roles is to identify emerging…
Our Training Initiatives
Each year Volunteer Victoria works with a wide variety of trainers to deliver workshops for our community participants. As the Manager of Training and Outreach for Volunteer Victoria, I’m pleased that we are able to offer a good cross-section of…
Your Case for Support – a critical first step
The following is a guest blog post written by Kari Frazer, facilitator of our recent “Planning for Fundraising Success” workshop. Kari holds the international Certified Fund Raising Executive designation and has been practicing fundraising, marketing and media relations for 24…
Succession Planning – Is Your Organization Ready for the Future?
Today we’re pleased to feature a guest blog post by certified HR professional Ginger Brunner. Ginger is principal of Dynamic HR Solutions Inc and will be facilitating our upcoming “Succession Planning” workshop on February 17, 2011. If the employees who…
Nonprofit Marketing: As easy as 1, 2, 3
A little birdie helped us out recently to learn more about nonprofit marketing. The graphic birdie image pictured above sits in the “1, 2, 3 Marketing Tree”, developed by Mills Communications Group’s founder Erica Mills, who was in Victoria in…
Emerging Leaders Network: The first eight weeks
It’s only been eight weeks since we launched our Emerging Leaders Network but the group’s membership has already risen to 85 people and we’ve held several fantastic events so far. This is an update on what has been happening with the…
Speeches at Volunteer Victoria’s AGM: Mitchell Temkin
NOTE: This post is part of the Embracing the Future-Leading for Change post regarding our Annual General Meeting. We’d like to thank Mitchell Temkin for delivering the following thought-provoking speech on community leadership at Volunteer Victoria’s Annual General Meeting on June 24,…
Speeches at Volunteer Victoria’s AGM: Sandra Richardson
NOTE: This post is part of the Embracing the Future-Leading for Change post regarding our Annual General Meeting. We would like to thank Sandra Richardson for the following very informative speech she gave at Volunteer Victoria’s Annual General Meeting on June 24, 2010. Sandra’s…