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Experienced volunteer managers know that treating your volunteers well is one of the best ways you can ensure that you retain the best ones for future events. A volunteer’s time is being pulled in multiple directions, but we can do a few smart and thoughtful things to ensure that our volunteers...

It happens to everyone. You spend hours setting up a detailed schedule for your event. You assign your volunteers roles, accounting for all of their specific requests and interests. Then, you send them a carefully crafted email indicating the days and times they are supposed to show up. On the day...

The not-so-fun event jobs are the ones that usually get left to the last minute. Scheduling staff and volunteers is a task that many event planners procrastinate on. However, to do it successfully, it needs to be planned out well ahead of time. We've prepared 5 tips to help you stop procrastinating...