Volunteer Management Quotes

In a volunteer organization there has to be time for community.

The more you expect from a volunteer the more you get.

If you are a local church or non-profit, you live and die with volunteers.

If a volunteer can help us with an immediate need, we can put them in a place to make their greatest contribution.

I was very active in the Parks and Recreation department. I recall a lot of the things we had to do, from the trips for the department to organizing a Little League, those sorts of things.

It's incredible to watch how our cricket clubs depend on volunteers.

Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

I’ve worked with volunteers before,” he began. “It’s important not to… not to treat them like servants. We may feel that they are laboring to obtain a heavenly reward, and should therefore work harder than they would for money; but they don’t necessarily take that attitude. They feel they’re working for nothing, and doing a great kindness to us thereby; and if we seem ungrateful they will work slowly and make mistakes. It will be best to rule them with a light touch.

I try to be in the office as much as possible to get the full experience working with volunteers, making phone calls, putting out signs - things that the communications director probably normally wouldn't do.

When you were a volunteer for the Bush-Cheney campaign, you came in the morning; you had a supervisor who gave you a list of calls to make and a time to do it in.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.