2025 Volunteer Delaware Conference

Theme: Planning with Purpose: Reignite, Rebuild, and Reimagine Volunteerism

Join us on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at Bally’s Dover Hotel & Casino for a powerful day of inspiration, learning, and connection. The Volunteer Delaware Conference brings together volunteer leaders, nonprofit professionals, businesses, and community changemakers from across the state to share best practices and reimagine the future of service.

✨ Highlights include:

• Keynote Address: Carla Markell, Former First Lady of Delaware
• Engaging Breakout Workshops led by experts on volunteer motivation, youth engagement, onboarding, and innovation in volunteerism
• Featured Sessions with Dr. Rachael R. Knotts on DISC leadership and Londin Boots on embracing authenticity in volunteerism
• Networking Opportunities with peers, sponsors, and statewide leaders
• Special Feature: PAWS for People Volunteer Delaware Dog Ambassadors greeting guests and spreading joy
• Raffle Prizes ✨

🥗 Included with registration: Continental breakfast, networking lunch, all sessions, and raffle entry.

🎟️ Tickets: $65 per person (200 available). Reserve your seat early!

🙏 Thank you to our sponsors: Delaware Health and Social Services • Planting to Feed • Fifer Orchards

Vendor Table Sponsors:

Don’t miss this chance to reignite your passion, rebuild your connections, and reimagine the future of volunteerism in Delaware.

👉 Register today

Info: The 2025 Volunteer Delaware Conference will be held on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at Bally’s Dover Hotel & Casino.
This year’s theme, Planning with Purpose: Reignite, Rebuild, and Reimagine Volunteerism, will bring together volunteer leaders, nonprofit professionals, businesses, and community changemakers from across Delaware for a day of inspiration, learning, and connection.

Conference Highlights

Keynote: Carla Markell, Former First Lady of Delaware,

Breakout Sessions: Practical workshops on volunteer motivation, youth engagement, innovation, and nonprofit leadership

Featured Presentations: Inspiring sessions from statewide leaders

Networking Opportunities: Build relationships with peers, sponsors, and Commissioners

Special Feature: PAWS for People Volunteer Delaware Dog Ambassadors

Included: Breakfast, lunch, all sessions, raffle entry

Info: Revitalizing Volunteer Programs: Keilah Hanley, Habitat for Humanity; Building Better Volunteer Onboarding and Engagement: Theresa Young, American Red Cross; Maximizing Impact with AI: Tools and Tips for Volunteer Leaders: Kurt Anderson, RV LIFE

Info: From Tokenism to True Power: Shifting Volunteerism Through Youth-Adult Partnership, Dr. Melody F. Phillips,Péste Strategic Solutions Group; Understanding Volunteer Motivation, Your Key to Successful Volunteer Engagement, Glen Stubbolo, Delaware Emergency Management Agency; Reverse Recruitment - Begins by Looking Within, Angela Williamson, Blood Bank of Delmarva

Info: Featured Session – Dr. Rachael R. Knotts, CEO, Dr. Rachael Speaking/Training/Coaching, LLC-
Friction to Flow: Leading Through the Lens of Maxwell DISC

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Connect with fellow attendees & visit vendor tables

Info: Featured Session – Joshua M. Freeman Foundation and Freeman Arts Pavilion-
Londin Boots, Volunteer Manager: Calling All Difference Makers: Bringing Your Authentic Self to Your Nonprofit,

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