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.