About
What this site is
A free resource covering volunteer recruitment, and only volunteer recruitment.
VolunteerMagnet is the free resource site published atrecruitmorevolunteers.com. The two names refer to the same thing: the brand is VolunteerMagnet, and the address says what it is for.
Why only recruitment?
Because covering one subject completely is more useful than covering five partially. Retention, program management, onboarding and impact reporting all matter, they are simply not what this site is for, and there are people who cover them better than we would.
What we won't do
Nothing here is sold. No tool requires an email address to use, no template sits behind a form, and subscribing to the newsletter does not trigger a sales call, because there is nothing to sell. There are no popups, no countdown timers, and no exit-intent guilt.
How we handle sources
Every statistic traces to a named primary source with a date, linked so you can check it. We go to the original study rather than to another blog's summary of it. If a figure cannot be verified at its origin it does not appear at all, which is why you will occasionally read that no reliable number exists for something.
Figures also go stale. The value of a volunteer hour, for instance, is revised every April, so anything citing it carries the year it refers to.
For everything else
If you need help with retention or program management, write to us and we will point you toward someone good. Referring you elsewhere costs us nothing worth keeping.
Who writes this
VolunteerMagnet publishes under the organization's name rather than an individual byline. That is a deliberate choice, and it puts the burden of trust on the work itself: on whether the sources check out, whether the advice is specific enough to act on, and whether the numbers are current. All three are things you can verify without knowing who typed them.
Articles are researched and drafted against the standards below, then reviewed and edited by a person before anything is published. Nothing goes live automatically.
How to check our work
- Every statistic links to its primary source. Open them. If a link does not support the claim, that is a mistake and we want to know.
- Figures carry the year they refer to, because several of the core numbers in this field are revised annually.
- Where no reliable data exists, we say so rather than citing a number whose origin we cannot trace.
- Where a working volunteer manager's experience would make a piece stronger, we ask one and quote them by name with their permission.
Corrections
If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us. Corrections are made quickly and noted on the page. A site that cannot admit an error is not a reference.