This is the time of year when volunteer coordinators are hoping for a miracle. End-of-year budgets are tight, staff may be burnt out –all while community needs mount during the holidays.
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VolunteerMatch: A lifeline to nonprofits
By Jude O'Reilley on November 22, 2023
Topics: Stories from the Field
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Two Data Points Should Give You Hope
By Jude O'Reilley on September 6, 2022
In a world where we are seemingly endlessly bombarded with painful news, it’s easy to imagine that the pandemics of our time would have all of us curled up in a ball on the couch. It’s not an unreasonable reaction to a steady onslaught of tough news. It’s also not true.
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4 Reasons that Volunteering is Good for You: Thoughts on Service from VolunteerMatch CEO
By Jude O'Reilley on April 20, 2022
In April 2020 in an act of sheer desperation, I googled “San Jose Volunteering COVID-19.” I had been living in isolation in my house a full thirty days—thirty days—likely the longest I’d been in one place since I was 3 years old. I felt cut-off from my work team, which was scattering to the wind as COVID-19 raged in their hometowns around the world.