When Heather Jack went looking for a charity where she and her then 5-year-old daughter might volunteer together, she didn’t find many takers. While plenty of nonprofit organizations were eager for Ms ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the busiest National park in the U.S., but with the park service cutting nearly a quarter of all positions last year, volunteers have made up the difference.

To help ensure harmonious relationships between a charity’s volunteers and its staff members, say nonprofit experts, it’s important to vet volunteers carefully. Interviewing prospective volunteers is ...