CERTIFICATE IN VOLUNTEER ENGAGEMENT
Volunteers are more than helpers—they’re mission-critical. This certificate equips nonprofit professionals to engage, support, and retain volunteers with intention, using tools like value tracking, goal setting, and adaptive leadership to build a volunteer experience that benefits everyone involved.
Through the 9 courses included in this certificate, you’ll learn hhow to build and strengthen your volunteer engagement strategy using practical tools, leadership principles, and a mission-first mindset.
Explore how volunteer engagement benefits both your organization and your volunteers—and how to calculate and communicate that value.
Use frameworks like the four principles of management and the Needs Overlap Analysis (NOAH) to improve your planning, recruitment, and retention strategies.
Discover how to track engagement both quantitatively and qualitatively, and how internal factors influence your volunteer program’s success.
Apply adaptive leadership principles and skill-based goal setting to ensure your volunteer strategies are people-centered, aligned, and sustainable.
Learn how to build a volunteer strategy that connects people and purpose.
Each certificate includes nine bite-sized, 15-minute courses packed with video lessons, reflection exercises, knowledge checks, and interactive activities. Even better? They're fully mobile-friendly, so you can learn anytime, anywhere—right from your phone or tablet.
Incorporating 9 micro-learning courses, learning checks, and a reflective workbook.
Checking your savvy on 5 related leadership competencies.
Complete the coursework for both a brag-worthy certificate of completion plus 3 CFRE points.
Thousands of nonprofit professionals have completed courses and certificates on the Merit® Nonprofit Professional Development platform. Here are just a few of their thoughts.
I finally feel like we have a plan—not just a program—for our volunteers.
- Sheila R., Columbus, OH
This training gave me practical tools I started using immediately—and my volunteers noticed.
- Dante L., Tulsa, OK
From value tracking to leadership strategy, this course had way more depth than I expected.
- Melanie J., Los Angeles, CA
Strengthen your volunteer recruitment, retention, and leadership strategies—all in one certificate.
Merit® is a signature product of the Nonprofit Help Center, a company founded in 2018 by Dr. Emilie Socash. The Nonprofit Help Center team helps nonprofits and the people who power them go from mission impossible to mission unstoppable with a just-for-nonprofits suite of capacity-building solutions, fixing what's holding them back.
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