Aaron Hurst, founder and CEO of the Taproot Foundation, writes about how a confluence of factors including inspiration from President Obama's Serve America Act to the ongoing recession have led to an abundant supply of volunteers for the nonprofit sector and the challenges the sector faces in making the best use of this new wave of volunteers. His Op-Ed piece appears in the current issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy and outlines the lessons the Taproot Foundation has learned about managing volunteer teams effectively in its eight years of providing pro bono service grants to more than 1,000 nonprofit organizations in seven cities around the country. Read more.
Tell us what you think. Do you have more volunteers than you can handle? Or are you having a hard time matching your organizational needs to the types of things your volunteers are interested in doing?
(Thanks to Janet Camarena, Director, Foundation Center-San Francisco, for sharing this post)
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