How Volunteering Shapes Your Fundraising Career

Discover how experience as a volunteer can help shape your fundraising approach, building empathy, practical skills and sector understanding that enhance your professional practice.

Working in the third sector, it’s likely that you’ll spend some time working with volunteers, and possibly even managing them. If it’s the first time you’ve done this, or haven’t worked with volunteers in a while, you might be wondering how you can best support them.

Have you ever heard it said that the best way of learning is by doing?

If you have already spent some time volunteering yourself, you’ll likely have a good insight into the support volunteers need and what you can do to help meet those needs.

Here are some of the things you could learn as a volunteer with the Chartered Institute.

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