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Leading the Unpaid
A Field Guide to Volunteer Management for Community Organization Leaders
You're leading an organization of people who could walk away tomorrow. No paycheck holds them. No contract binds them. Yet somehow you need them to show up, do quality work, and not hate you for asking. Welcome to volunteer leadership—where everything you learned about management is both relevant and insufficient.
Inside this guide
- The Volunteer Paradox
- What Volunteers Actually Want
- Recruiting High-Agency Volunteers
- Designing Roles That Work
- Delegation Without Resentment
- Preventing Burnout
- Running Meetings People Don't Hate
- Difficult Personalities and Board Politics