Saturday, January 2, 2010

Fast Company Blog on Nonprofit Volunteers


For foundation leaders, Alice Korngold’s nonprofit related blog posts on Fast Company are worth the read.  On December 28, 2009 she published a post entitled “Why People Who Volunteer Are Value-Add Hires For Your Company.”

She thinks that nonprofit volunteers make excellent hires for a number of reasons, including:
  • A work ethic that can’t be beat
  • Leadership skills that are honed and developed through nonprofit volunteer experiences
  • A tendency to self reflection and thoughtfulness
  • Great community based networks of colleagues and friends
  • Knowledge of the community
How true, and how useful when we're composing job references for our volunteers to remember this handy list of attributes.

2 comments:

Tom Bailey said...

I am going to check out this recomendation you are making.

You have a great blog and there is a great deal of information on here. I work with a local community foundation and barely learned what they were all about a few years ago. What you do makes a huge difference and most do not understand what it is that you do. Thank you for the workk that you do and sharing information like you did in this entry.

Kindest regards,
Tom Bailey

Eileen Ellsworth said...

Tom. Happy New Year, and thanks for your comment. I hope you find the discussion topics and information in my blog useful. If you have any suggestions for me, I'd love to hear them. Meanwhile, feel free to email any post you like to your friends and colleagues. Just click on the little email icon at the bottom of each post to do so.

And comment away! I love it!

Eileen.