These are blogs I have written based on my own experience as a volunteer, or per the experiences that friends have had when they have tried to volunteer. Sometimes I name the organization, often I don’t.

• Do you want volunteer feedback? Not if you don’t ask for it: based on an experience I had as a volunteer in 2018 and 2019
• Volunteer (mis)management at schools: based on the experiences of a friend who volunteers at her daughter’s school, as well as my own.
• I’m a Frustrated Volunteer: about how often I sign up to volunteer and never hear back from any of the organizations I signed up with
• Still Trying to Volunteer, Still Frustrated: an update on my efforts to volunteer
• How to Get Rid of Volunteers: about the time I signed up to help at an event and, when I arrived, found out I was in charge of the event and the organizer wouldn’t be there
• Why Girls Want to Join the Boy Scouts: about my experience trying to volunteer with the Girl Scouts in Oregon, 2010-2012.
• A fire station turns away volunteers – and how it could be different: about my husband, an experienced volunteer firefighter, trying to volunteer as such in the USA
• A missed opportunity with volunteers: about a friend’s experience volunteering, and how no one ever asked her for feedback about her experience.
• latest moment of volunteer management madness: about volunteering with an organization that refused to break up traditional, time-consuming volunteering roles into smaller, project-based assignments volunteers really wanted to do
• How to handle online criticism: a blog inspired by being a volunteer with an online community and seeing the main community manager regulary ignore or shut down volunteer criticism of management
• What you say vs. what you do re: volunteers: based on too many of my own volunteering experiences to count
• How easy is it to volunteer at your organization?: inspired by my many attempts to volunteer
• What really happens when someone wants to volunteer with you: also inspired by my many attempts to volunteer

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