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Volunteer Management Leadership Series
The Volunteer Management Leadership Series (VMLS) empowers leaders to elevate volunteer strategies, enhancing impact, capacity, and community connections.
Last updated 25 April 2025
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Overview
The Volunteer Management Leadership Series (VMLS) offers engaging sessions tailored for board and senior leaders across the 3P Sectors. This initiative is designed to elevate and strengthen volunteer management strategies within their agencies, ensuring effective leadership and impactful volunteerism. Join us to explore the objectives that drive this vital initiative forward.
Objectives
Recognise impact: Appreciate how volunteer managers boost manpower capacity, enhancing the organisation's strategic outcomes through volunteers.
Embrace vital functions: Acknowledge volunteer management's crucial role in fortifying services, serving as a catalyst for the organisation's strategic plans and goals.
Cultivate connections: Encourage boards & senior management to become connectors, fostering partnerships between their agency and the wider community to boost volunteer engagement.
Explore our engagements
Future-ready sector: Strengthening organisations through volunteers
(7 March 2024)
A future-ready Social Service Agency (SSA) adapts proactively to effectively serve its community in an ever-changing landscape and ensure a dynamic volunteer workforce which can contribute to the agency’s mission and goals.
Leadership within a future-ready SSA is pivotal. Board members and senior management can actively integrate volunteer management within organisational strategic planning to equip the SSA to navigate future challenges and seize opportunities, driving sustained success and community impact.
This session helps prepare organisations for future readiness and optimal impact through volunteers.
How volunteers can expand and scale up services for your organisation
(26 September 2023)
When we begin to appreciate the power of good volunteer partnerships, we can be certain that their contributions could lead to new opportunities to expand the impact of our organisation.
Leveraging their skills, time and resources, organisations could reach new heights, achieve greater social impact and expand its services to new untapped communities of service users.
This session discussed how to engage our volunteers to develop innovative solutions and push beyond existing boundaries to scale new frontiers together.
Charting your volunteer strategy for organisational growth & transformation
(31 January 2023)
Volunteers are invaluable resources in building and transforming agencies for greater impact in the community. With volunteers as key enablers in agencies' strategic plans, there will be greater manpower capacity to achieve organisational goals.
As leaders, it is important to guide and structure your volunteer management strategy as an integral part of organisational strategy to truly unlock the fullest potential of your volunteer force.
Volunteer committee: How Board leadership can transform your volunteer management strategy
(18 October 2022)
The purpose of charities set up functional committees is to provide advice and recommendations to the board on specific functional areas of expertise. The role played by volunteer committees is integral to all charities.
With a focus in volunteer management, the committee should guide charities in strategically optimising their volunteer resources to drive their mission and goals This forum discusses how boards should establish volunteer committees to drive and achieve greater volunteer management outcomes.
Transform your volunteer management strategy for greater impact through board & senior leadership
Volunteer management is a key strategy to help your organisation succeed - beyond service delivery but also in helping your organisation to grow & transform.
To achieve optimal impact in your volunteer management strategy for better volunteerism outcomes, Board and senior leadership are key to making this vision a reality.
Find out more
To find out more about Volunteer Management Leadership Series, please write to volunteer_resource@ncss.gov.sg