Understanding volunteer management lifecycle can help boost long‐term engagement

For nonprofits that routinely rely on volunteers for their programming and operations, leveraging the skills and dedication of those workers for the long term is a perennial challenge. There's no doubt that volunteers can add tremendous value to an organization's services—and it's especially true for those with specialized skills that help address gaps in the skills and capabilities provided by the organization's paid staff, as is often the case when nonprofits work with corporate partners to place their more talented workers in skills‐based volunteer positions.