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Reimagining Graduate Student Recruitment: 4 Tips to Get Started

sgEngage

In fact, from 2011 to 2021, the rate of growth of earned master’s and doctoral degrees outpaced bachelor’s and professional programs. Yet it is critical to create a cohesive recruitment experience for all graduate programs at your institution. may be reaching the graduate education community.

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Just in Time for the Giving Season: The Online Giving Study

NTEN

Having just gone through the Early Bird deadline for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , it comes as no surprise to me that people will wait until the last minute to do things, but one statistic in the report really shocked me: 22% of all annual giving happens in the last 2 days of the year !

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Just in Time for the Giving Season: The Online Giving Study

NTEN

Having just gone through the Early Bird deadline for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , it comes as no surprise to me that people will wait until the last minute to do things, but one statistic in the report really shocked me: 22% of all annual giving happens in the last 2 days of the year !

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

A related research question is the impact or positive incentive of volunteer stipends among low-wage earners (McBride, Gonzales, Morrow-Howell, & McCrary, 2011). This study investigated older adult volunteers serving in the Experience Corps program across 23 U.S. CDS Working Papers 09-12. McBride, A., Gonzales, E., Tschirhart, M.,

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Relationships Matter Most (The Big Finding from the 2010 Online Giving Study from Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing)

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a feature article that first appeared in the March 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Just as the strength of the donor-charity relationship heavily influences offline giving, the online giving experience has a significant impact on donor loyalty, retention, and gift levels.

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Research Friday: Corporate Volunteer Programs: Synergy in Business and Nonprofit Actions

ASU Lodestar Center

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. Retrieved on 25 October 2011 from: [link]. McAlister, D. and Ferrell, L. 36(5/6), 689-743.

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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?

ASU Lodestar Center

Like Bob Ottenhoff, CEO of Guidstar USA, said, “the era of assumed virtue in the nonprofit sector is over…people want to know how their contributions are being used (Rooney, 2011).” Communication must be utilized as an accountability messaging strategy to provide informative and appealing avenues that allow for donor retention.

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