Bold + Bright Ideas to Engage Today’s Volunteers

When you’re given the mandate to expand the communities from which you attract volunteers, what do you do? In this episode, Dani Daly of CASA of San Joaquin County gives us her playbook.

Courtney Tull has taken a more academic approach to her work as a leader of volunteers. She shares how she’s combined her work as a practitioner - starting with her AmeriCorps service - with her academic work, getting both her Master’s and her Doctorate in volunteer engagement related topics. She’ll share her Doctorate research and what she’s learned about volunteer motivation.

MobileServe helps organizations coordinate, track and report on service learning opportunities, and has gathered data from over 12 million service hours. Kevin Bauman joins us to talk about what they’ve learned about how to help volunteers create a meaningful connection with the work and your mission through feedback and reflection.

What do you do when your program simply isn’t working anymore? You change it! In this episode, Theresa Menting of We EmpowHer shares her journey from County employee to nonprofit Executive Director and how she took on the challenge to evolve a women’s mentorship program into something truly remarkable.

Serial social entrepreneur and youth leader, Zainab Abu-Gilal of MuslimDepiction is taking on big issues, in this case how Muslims are portrayed in society, all while finishing school. In this episode, she helps break the myths about “younger generations” and what they can achieve.