Do you work with volunteers on a regular basis? Want to learn the in’s and out’s of best practices in the field? If so, you may want to know about E-Volunteerism online journal. It’s  “a journal to inform and challenge leaders of volunteers.”

Earlier this year I spoke at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, convened in Chicago by Points of Light. My book, Writing to Make a Difference, was featured in the conference bookstore, where I met the good folks who publish E-Volunteerism.  They invited me to submit an article, and voila: a new partnership was born.

The article was just published, under the title “Show, Don’t Just Tell: Writing to Inspire, Motivate and Recruit Volunteers,” and I’ve posted a PDF of it for you. It starts out like this:

Your organization is always looking for great volunteers to embrace your mission, help carry it out and even help spread the word to others. The pool of potential volunteers out there is endless! And you know that many people would love to find a convenient way to help make a real difference in their communities. Volunteering with your organization offers them that opportunity!

There’s just one problem.

How can you inspire, motivate, and recruit those potential volunteers? How can you use the power of your words to prompt a reader, listener, or viewer to move from the armchair to the work site?

To read the rest, I invite you to download the article HERE. If you’re interested in learning more about the journal, just check it out HERE.