Discover What’s Possible: Learning & Networking for Volunteer Engagement Leaders

Celebrate International Volunteer Managers Day by discovering what’s possible for you, your volunteers, and your organization. Connect with volunteer engagement leaders from across central Illinois for practical learning, fresh ideas, and meaningful conversation. Explore your volunteer engagement style, discover new strategies and resources, exchange ideas with peers, and leave with tools you can put into action.

Thursday, November 5 | 8:00 am–2:00 pm
Trailside Event Center, Peoria Heights
Espresso bar, snacks, and lunch included
Registration: $25/person  (early bird discount code for $5/off: DISCOVER5)

➜➜➜ What Will You Discover?

➜ Discover What’s Possible
We’ll open the day with Doug Cruitt, with Distillery Labs, who will challenge us to bring an entrepreneurial mindset to volunteer engagement—staying curious, experimenting with new approaches, recognizing the assets around us, and looking at familiar challenges from a different perspective.

➜ Discover Yourself
Explore your own volunteer engagement style through an interactive activity designed to uncover the strengths, instincts, and perspectives you bring to your work. Adapted from our friends at the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE).  

➜ Discover Your Volunteers
With our friends from Better Impact, we'll take a fresh look at what motivates people to engage, how preferences shape the volunteer experience, and how understanding those differences can help us create stronger connections and opportunities.

➜ Discover New Possibilities
Explore emerging ideas and strategies shaping the future of volunteer engagement from Points of Light's National Volunteer Strategy, "Reimagining Service 2035," and what they could mean for your organization and our community.

➜ Discover Your Community
Connect what we’re learning to local needs, assets, and opportunities. Where can volunteer engagement make a difference, and what possibilities haven’t we considered yet?

➜ Discover What’s Next
Leave with new connections, practical resources, and ideas you can put into action. 

Come Curious. This won’t be a day of sitting through presentations. Expect conversation, reflection, interactive activities, new connections, and plenty of opportunities to ask “What if?”