by Mickey Gomez on July 27, 2010
Volunteer Days at the Howard County Fair – August 9 and 10, 2010 A limited number of tickets for volunteers for the Howard County Fair courtesy of the County Executive’s Office are available at the Volunteer Center Serving Howard County. Tickets Admit One Volunteer free on either Monday, August 9 or Tuesday, August 10. For [...]
by Mickey Gomez on June 4, 2010
Miley Cyrus, ambassador for Service Nation and founder of Get Ur Good On, is encouraging YOU to participate in the YouTube Video Volunteers program. Create a video highlighting a service organization that you really care about and submit it to YouTube Video Volunteers by June 24th. The top three videos will appear next to Miley’s [...]
by Mickey Gomez on April 30, 2010
Yesterday I presented a workshop at the Southeastern Directors of Volunteers in Healthcare Organizations Annual Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA. The topic? Using the Web & Social Media for Volunteer Engagement. Most of the slides are screenshots spotlighting examples of agencies using social media effectively. For this particular audience, I tried to focus on effective [...]
by Katelyn Ryan on January 26, 2010
How Can Volunteer Maryland Strengthen Your Nonprofit? Want to learn how a one-year partnership with Volunteer Maryland can strengthen your organization? Is your nonprofit or government agency looking for a new, energetic and passionate team member to help progress your mission? Volunteer Maryland is pleased to offer you two programs that are designed to do [...]
by Katelyn Ryan on December 21, 2009
This week I had the opportunity to deliver hand made blankets made by Project Linus “blanketeers” to the Kennedy-Krieger Hospital, in Baltimore. When I was helping to put together the VCSHC Holiday Guide to Giving I was particularly interested in their mission, which is, “…to provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to [...]
by Mickey Gomez on June 18, 2009
Welcome to our newly redesigned website! We hope that you find the site to be user friendly, offering a single portal to valuable resources, services, and information relevant to volunteer management. There are many issues (local, regional and statewide) currently affecting volunteer management. We will be providing updates to you via this blog, so please [...]