34 posts tagged with "Volunteer"

When the National FFA Organization comes to you for their 99th National Convention, you feel the weight of that number.

Ninety-nine years of young people in blue and gold. Ninety-nine years of agricultural education, leadership development, and community service. And this year, for the first time, some new requirements that made setting up their volunteer site more complex than ever before.

Last week, I watched a volunteer coordinator manage an entire 300-person event from her phone. She checked in volunteers, reassigned shifts when two people called out sick, answered questions via text, and pulled real-time attendance reports—all while walking the event floor. Ten years ago, she would have been trapped behind a registration table with a laptop and a stack of paper. That transformation tells you everything about where volunteer management is heading.