Carve the path to a stronger community with our free citywide volunteer engagement guide

This free download is designed to help city staff, elected officials, and interested residents in building a case and support for citywide volunteer engagement strategies.

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Volunteer engagement is a powerful strategy to strengthen communities.

Yet, many city staff and residents encounter challenges when seeking to gain leadership support for citywide engagement strategies.

This guide is designed to help city staff, elected officials, and interested residents in building a case and support for citywide volunteer engagement strategies. While specifically written with city government in mind, the lessons are applicable to counties, states, and other entities as well.

Created by:

Beth Steinhorn, President of VQ Volunteer Strategies
Lindsey Rehder, COO of Offero Volunteer Management

  • This guide includes

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    Concise research highlights on the value and benefits of citywide engagement strategies.

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    Case studies illustrating how different cities have built the case for citywide engagement strategies and the paths they have taken since.

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    Tools you can use to build the case for support

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    Additional resources

Meet Offero

The only volunteer management software you'll ever need

Offero is an enterprise-grade volunteer management software application created to meet the needs of programs just like yours. Our design and functional capabilities were derived from years of collaboration with volunteer coordinators and continue to evolve with their needs. We’ve successfully partnered with city, county, and state governments of all sizes and scopes to implement our cloud-based solution.

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Volunteer Recruitment & Onboarding
Volunteers search opportunities, submit applications and background checks, and complete training all in one place.
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Volunteer & Event Management
Manage volunteer scheduling and participant registrations while automating tasks like shift reminders, hour tracking, and feedback requests.
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Volunteer Engagement
Easily communicate with all or a subset of your volunteers. Volunteers connect with each other in a private discussion forum.
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Program Measurement
Turn your data into useful information at the click of a button with our Analytics dashboard and pull an amazing array of standard and custom reports.

“Offero has transformed our volunteer efforts into one cohesive program. Building systems and processes that apply to all volunteers is so much easier with Offero. Not to mention there is way less paper to keep track of! I can now pull reports city wide with the click of the mouse. I no longer have to spend countless hours compiling data from different sources.”

Charlotte Norville

Charlotte Norville

Offero Product Specialist
Former City of Fort Collins Citywide Volunteer Program Manager
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