Best Links: Volunteer Love, Better Annual Reports, Epic Newsletters

National Volunteer Week is coming up April 15-21. VolunteerMatch has the recipe for showing your volunteers some love this year in 7 Ways to Appreciate Your Volunteers. Also, Susan Ellis, chief guru of volunteer management, suggests some things that we should not be doing to our volunteers in Common Sense and Volunteer Involvement.

Annual reports are changing, but many of the essential elements remain the same. Wild Apricot is putting together some resources to help you get organized for your annual report. This post details the 5 Questions to Get You Started. Stay tuned for the rest of this blog series and check out the guide.

Have you been in a quandry about how to transform your print newsletter into an emailed one, or the elements of a really good newsletter? Then be sure to get the new free e-book from Kivi Leroux Miller and Network for Good: From Print to Email: Take Your Newsletter on an Epic Journey.

Tis the season for spring galas for many nonprofits. But are you getting as much as you can out of those events? Event360 teaches us just how important follow up is to any event in Eureka! Mining For Gold Through Post-Event Engagement.

Are online fundraising and social media hot, cold, or just right? Studies have been breaking out all over just like spring lately. Katya Andresen is always on top of these and gets to the most important points from each. Check her What are nonprofits doing with social media? Six interesting stats and More benchmarks: How nonprofits are faring online.

Hungry for more links? Here are three recent link roundups that might help:

• Weekend Link Roundup (April 7-8) from PhilanTopic (the Foundation Center).
• Expert Snapshots for April from Engaging Volunteers at VolunteerMatch.
• Nonprofit Tweets of the Week - April 6, 2012 from the Nonprofit Law Blog.