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12/23/2024

Happy Holidays!

12/22/2024

Hoping your holidays are light on stress and filled with joy.
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Not feeling particularly cheery this time of year? Psychologist Neda Gould shares four ways to make your holidays brighter.

12/21/2024

Need a last-minute gift for that volunteer engagement professional on your list?
🌍 Purchase a year's membership or, for less than a cup of your favorite latte, a one month subscription.
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12/20/2024

Tis the season for drop-in, short term and onetime .
🌏 Our FREE POV from the archives lays out the benefits and challenges of flexible .
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12/19/2024

Volunteer management isn’t just about hats—it’s about visions. Learn how adopting an entrepreneurial spirit can transform your department into a well-oiled machine.

From creating clarity in your vision to building accountability and using actionable systems, this book breaks it down step by step. Perfect for leaders of volunteers, consultants, or anyone balancing multiple roles.

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12/19/2024

Don't miss these new Engage articles on topics relevant to today's volunteer engagement.
🌍 This issue offers a wealth of ideas you can adapt to your volunteer initiatives.
https://buff.ly/35Ob6kA

12/19/2024

It's my last of 2024 which means time for a quick glimpse towards the year ahead.

Thanks for reading and engaging with these articles for another year.

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A look ahead

The end of 2024 is just three weeks away and, at this time of year, many of us are reflecting back on the year departing, and looking forward to the year arriving.

As some of you know, 2024 hasn’t been an easy year for me personally — I’ll be glad to see the back of it — but I think 2025 promises to be an interesting year for volunteering.

I think that Volunteer-Involving Organisations and Volunteer Engagement Professionals will continue to face the challenges and seize the opportunities, of casual volunteering becoming the norm for how people give time.

I hope that we’ll see more in-person gatherings for our field, recapturing the networking potential of the pre-Covid ways of working.

I feel that, with the parlous state of world affairs, there is a real moment for volunteers to shine, to light the way to a better future for us all. The energy and enthusiasm is waiting to be unlocked and, as Volunteer Engagement Professionals, we get to turn the key.

How exciting is that?

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Please note: this is the last Two-Hundred Word Tuesday post from me for 2024. The next one will be out on the 7th January 2025.

#2024 #2025

12/18/2024

How can an organisational development perspective help engage ?
🌎 Check out this in-depth presentation from Helen Timbrell for insights on working through wider systems.

“Look What You Made Me Do”: Advancing volunteering in complex organisational systemsThe challenges we experience when looking to grow and develop volunteerin...

12/18/2024

Thanks for sharing Allison Russell, Ph.D. in Texas! We love hearing why our team of authors, volunteers and supporters continue to "engage" with the journal. Without their expertise, we couldn't bring you discussion and insights from around the world.

Allison serves as our Research To Practice editor:

"I write for Engage because I believe that connecting research to practice is critical for not only advancing the field of volunteer engagement leadership but also ensuring that researchers are asking the right questions.

As an academic, it is my role to facilitate conversation, connection, and collaboration that fosters mutual learning, and I believe that writing for the Engage Research to Practice section allows me to further that goal both professionally and personally."

12/18/2024

"We weren’t asking people to sign-up to an ongoing role, but once they started, they then were more motivated to sign-up for more."
🌏 Read this Voices journey to the Yes campaign for more insights.

Volunteering is at the heart of most social change, and volunteers form a crucial part of electoral politics and campaigning. But imagine being co-leader of a local campaign group during a critical referendum to recognize the First Nations peoples in the Australian constitution and working to engage...

12/17/2024

NEW in Research to Practice!
"A Tribute to Editor Laurie Mook"
After 13 years of dedicated service to Engage, Laurie Mook, PhD, is stepping down as editor of the Research to Practice section. An engaged professor and scholar, Dr. Mook’s own body of research has contributed significantly to the study of volunteering and Volunteer Engagement leadership. To commemorate her time with Engage and celebrate her broader career, this issue’s Research to Practice showcases Dr. Mook’s research and its implications for practice, highlighting her many important contributions to the field and to the profession.
https://buff.ly/4gyuxj3
* this article is for Engage members, low cost monthly memberships are available

12/15/2024

Struggling with whether or not to gift volunteers? What now?
🌎 No, they do not expect it
🌍 No, gift giving is not inclusive
🌏 Yes, send end-of-year card
🌎 Yes, give some organizational swag and acknowledge all holidays in one
🌍 Throw a get-together, give away door prizes
Something else?

12/14/2024

12/13/2024

As an experienced Volunteer Manager, Lachlan Preston learnt a lot from this community-based campaigning that is relevant for the broader volunteering sector.
🌏 What lessons did he apply?
https://buff.ly/3UGjkVk

12/11/2024

Raise your hand if you've been to the journal lately....

12/11/2024

"While happiness is a state that people aim to achieve, joy encompasses the processes that may result in happiness."
🌍 There are so many joyful moments when engaging , right?

Enjoying a cup of coffee or performing an act of kindness are some examples of the everyday ‘micro-joys’ that can boost your wellbeing.

12/10/2024

Are you part of a manager peer group and need stocking stuffers? Give the gift of learning. For less than a specialty coffee, you can gift a 1 month subscription to Engage.
🌏 Access the Engage library for an entire month
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12/10/2024

NEW RELEASE DATE!

After 13 years of dedicated service to Engage, Laurie Mook, PhD, is stepping down as editor of the Research to Practice section. An engaged professor and scholar, Dr. Mook’s own body of research has contributed significantly to the study of volunteering and Volunteer Engagement leadership. To commemorate her time with Engage and celebrate her broader career, this issue’s Research to Practice showcases Dr. Mook’s research and its implications for practice, highlighting her many important contributions to the field and to the profession.

⭐ Available THIS FRIDAY December 13 ⭐