[Recording] The Volunteer Management Lifecycle: Refresh or Reboot?

Original Broadcast Date: February 6, 2025

Summary: The volunteer management cycle is the best practice model for the lifecycle of volunteer engagement, and for many years has been the foundation of important best practices such as planning, screening, policy development and onboarding and offboarding procedures that volunteer programs follow. It sets the framework of many of our best practices, policies, and procedures. The question is, is it up to date and reflective of the volunteer landscape of today and the ways that we should engage and support volunteers?

Webinar resources

Download the Slide Deck

How Trends can Affect Volunteer Programs and how they can Thrive Article

The Volunteer Management Lifecycle: Refresh or Reboot Article

CharityVillage Connects Podcast: Disappearing Volunteers: The Looming Crisis for Nonprofits

Get in touch with Lori Gotlieb: 

• lorigotliebconsulting@gmail.com 
• Website

About the presenter

Lori Gotlieb is a volunteer management leadership expert and consultant and podcaster, as well as an internationally published author and workshop facilitator and podcaster who has taught workshops to many diverse audiences, including Boards and Committees, Associations and Nonprofit organizations across North America. 

Lori is a contributing author the Volunteer Management Handbook, 2nd Edition as well as a subject matter expert guest on various podcasts in the nonprofit space. Lori has helped organizations with strategic planning, board and committee development, employee volunteerism, marketing volunteer programs, developing resource and learning centres, tools and resources for volunteer programs, and developing volunteer programs to name a few areas of expertise.  

Lori was a recipient of the Linda Buchanan Award for Excellence in Volunteer Management. Lori continues to push the boundaries of traditional volunteer management through her writing and teaching and helping leaders of volunteers to build out exceptional volunteer programs.