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Join me and Maysam Fadel (Manager, Volunteer & Student Services at WoodGreen Community Services) on September 17 in Downtown Toronto for this 90-minute in-person workshop. You'll learn from case studies, Mentimeter-supported dialogue, and decades of experience in communications planning, stakeholder engagement, and resource management. Leave the session with insights to shift from managing volunteers to leading organizational change with strategic influence!

Access my three most-downloaded resources FOR FREE:
1️⃣How to: Respond to volunteer applications
2️⃣How to: Ethically invite volunteers to share their stories
3️⃣12 FAQs to prepare for deploying a survey 

A recording of my conversation with Eric from Purposely and Sara from Charity Shift about how corporate volunteering has evolved beyond transactional teambuilding. We chat about what's meaningful, how to build strategic partnerships, and how nonprofits can get more strategic and creative in developing corporate volunteering opportunities. 

I chat with Brianna Stapleton Welch about her work at Little Free Library. We dig into how to build flexible systems, collect meaningful stories, and honour real community contributions. ​It’s full of insights​ for anyone thinking about how people show up.

This article reflects on Community-Centric Fundraising Principle 5 "time is valued equally as money". 

How do you thank volunteers after a signature event and keep them engaged longer-term?

Check out the #tuesdaytips video where I share:
👌what to do right away to show gratitude
🥰 what emails to send afterwards
💝 how to collect feedback as part of the appreciation process
🤩 how to thank superstar volunteers
💫 how to make returning volunteers feel extra special

Let's connect on LinkedIn! This is where you can find me online most often: reposting my fave thought leaders, talking about ethical stewardship, and sending heart emojis 💖

I'm sharing short advice and insight vids with my signature sass. You'll also get surprise appearances from my cat Junior.

Mallory Erickson and I discuss viewing volunteer engagement as a strategic initiative, corporate volunteering days, the wage replacement rate... and much more! My fave quote from this conversation: "We need to stop thinking of volunteers as just a way to save money."  

Listen in on my conversation with Swim Karim, host of the Nonprofit Insider Podcast. I share my #NonprofitHorrorStory, my take on how volunteer engagement has changed over the past decade, and why more volunteer hours doesn't necessarily mean more good.

Follow me on Insta and I'll keep you posted about events I'm attending. 

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Jessica operates Learn with JPP in T’karonto. For thousands of years, T’karonto has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and I am grateful to have the privilege to work on this land. 

I call for the reconciliation of current injustices as well as those that have been carried out against Indigenous communities which include but are not limited to broken treaty relationships. 

I encourage you to learn more about the traditional territories of the Indigenous Peoples where you live, work, and play using tools like native-land.ca.

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