Radical Welcome as a Guide for Community Engagement

When volunteer engagement relies on practices borrowed from business for paid staff, we can lose the relationships and purpose that are fundamental to success. Adopting a concept known as “radical welcome” as a guiding principle offers an antidote that reconnects us with community and returns us to our agency roots. In this Engage feature, writer Sue Carter Kahl explains the radical welcome concept and how to practice it in volunteerism.