Tools for Impact: Volunteer & Board Management Resources
- Nonprofit Learning Lab
- Jul 28
- 7 min read
Updated: Aug 28
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At the Nonprofit Learning Lab, we offer daily online nonprofit training on training, facilitation, fundraising, strategic planning, communications, volunteer management, and free resources to help you lead your organization. These resources are designed to help executive directors, c-suite staff, development directors, program directors, volunteer managers, operation directors, and board members.
We offer a variety of free nonprofit resources from downloadable guidebooks to webinars to blogs!
We’ve compiled a list of all our internal resources relating to volunteer & board management along with highlighting some of our favorite external resources.
Guidebooks
We offer many free downloadable guidebooks to get ideas for fundraising plans, budgeting, board development and more. View our volunteer and board-focused guidebooks below.
Learn strategies to create and manage an effective nonprofit board. This guidebook includes strategies for nonprofit board management including board training, board recruitment and how to build an effective nonprofit board of directors.
This guide introduces the essentials of board management software, offering guidance on selecting and implementing tools to enhance nonprofit board governance and efficiency.
Essential guide for measuring volunteer program impact, offering metrics to improve effectiveness and drive sustainability.
This a-to-z guide outlines effective volunteer strategies for your charity golf tournament. From recruiting and onboarding to managing and engaging volunteers, you’ll get ideas and tools to leverage volunteers to help make your golf fundraiser a success.
A guide to help facilitators understand concepts of how to incorporate trauma-informed facilitation into community discussions, focus groups, trainings, orientations and workshops.
Free Webinars & Past Free Webinar Downloads
Join us for live free webinars, covering topics from data analytics to fundraising & our diversity, equity and inclusion webinar series. Participate live to ask questions and learn from our expert speakers!
In addition to our live, upcoming free webinars, we provide access to all our previous free webinars! You can download both the recording and slides for our free webinars.
10 Free Volunteer & Board Webinars You Can Access Today
5 Trends in Volunteer Management You Can’t Afford to Ignore
Am I Making the Right Decision? The Role of Ethics in Volunteer Engagement
They're Not A Frill If You're Using Them Right: How to Save Money and Get More Done Using High-Skill Volunteers
Help Wanted: Volunteer Strategies for Golf & Other Fundraisers
Understanding the Role of Ethics in Volunteer Management and Engagement
Empowering Nonprofit Admins with Modern Governance Technology
How to Get Your Board to Invest in Fundraising Tech
Strategic Financial Planning: Turning Your Board Goals and Budget into an Action Plan
How To Build An Effective Data Dashboard
DEI and Your Board: Why Boards Need to Act Now
To gain access, just fill out our short form and you’ll receive an email to browse them all!
Workshops
We offer online nonprofit training on supervision, facilitation, fundraising, strategic planning, communications, volunteer management, board management, and more! Check out our trainings related to volunteer & board management below.
This 2-part training covers key aspects of volunteer management, including recruitment strategies, effective volunteer training methods, and best practices for volunteer retention. Participants will learn how to build a leadership pipeline, handle challenging volunteer situations, and update volunteer protocols using practical samples and templates for a volunteer program.
Through our 3-part workshop, we will guide you on how to be a better online or in-person trainer and gain practical skills you can use right away. We will discuss how to lead engaging small group exercises and practice methods for managing participants. We cover adult learning theory and practices, ways to make mandatory trainings fun, how to design for equity, ways to address curriculum bias, methods for online and in-person instructional design and strategies to incorporate equity and inclusion into a training, workshop or orientation.
This 3-part workshop will cover how to use trauma informed facilitation practices to plan, create and design. Using trauma informed principles of facilitation, we will cover the structure and format of facilitated experience, review how to create an agenda, design a facilitated experience, and how to handle disclosures, disruptions, and other facilitation challenges. This workshop is for facilitators and trainers who lead community-based conversations with adults where difficult topics may arise or in-depth discussions may occur.
Nonprofit Learning Library
Our nonprofit library contains hundreds of recordings and slides for nonprofit professionals on a variety of topics from marketing, fundraising, program management, diversity equity and inclusion, volunteer management and more.
Membership provides you with access to our previous nonprofit workshops. Interested in seeing what's in the resource library but not a member? Click here to see an abbreviated list of resources in our library.
Working on your continuing education credits and looking to get CFRE or CVA credits? Our library is filled with hundreds of sessions pre-approved for CFRE and CCVA credit! Additionally, as a CAE registered provider, many of our workshops qualify for ASAE credit as well!
Activity Sheets: Volunteer Management & Writing a Case Statement
We offer free downloadable, printable worksheets to help you brainstorm on nonprofit topics such as strategy & planning, fundraising, and volunteer management.
Volunteer recognition and appreciation are essential to retention. Keeping volunteers engaged and part of your community helps to build a dedicated base of volunteers. This document helps you plan out what your volunteer recognition plan is for the year.
Volunteer recruitment is an ongoing effort. Nonprofits rely on volunteers to support and implement programs and services. You want to develop a plan for recruiting individuals to serve in volunteer positions.
This worksheet focuses on six guiding questions that staff and board members should be able to answer when developing a case statement. Questions included can be integrated into meetings and onboarding for new board members.
This is a great resource to use when developing a case statement or if your organization is re-imagining its mission and vision. The ability to express what makes your organization unique helps define programs and services and will help your organization attract new donors, supporters, and board members.
Tip Sheets: Fundraising, Board Development and Volunteer Management
Download tip sheets on topics from nonprofit fundraising, board development, nonprofit marketing & volunteer management.
Tap into the passion of your existing volunteers to boost fundraising. This checklist offers simple, realistic ways to involve non-board volunteers in small campaigns, with tips on choosing the right people, offering training, and providing support for success.
This tip sheet offers practical guidance on building productive board relationships, leading with confidence, and turning meetings into strategic, inspiring sessions. Learn how to empower your board to support fundraising, set big goals, and create real impact—while keeping your role clear and powerful.
Blogs
Weekly blog posts on fundraising, nonprofit marketing, donor management software, nonprofit storytelling, volunteer management, social media and more!
Quick Link to Board Management Blogs
Quick Link to Volunteer Management Blogs
10 of our favorite blogs for volunteer professionals:
10 of our favorite board related blogs:
External Resources
CCVA promotes and certifies excellence in volunteer administration to advance the capacity of communities to effectively engage volunteers. Their mission is to advance excellence in volunteer administration by delivering professional certification and advocating ethical practice. If you are working on becoming a CVA, the Nonprofit Learning Lab is an approved provider and all of our workshops qualify towards your education.
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