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How to Start a Nonprofit: 12 Essential Steps for Success

Bloomerang

This guide will teach you what you need to know to get your new organization up and running. Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve?

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Volunteerism Keeps Proving Its Value (Especially When Skills Are Given)

Connection Cafe

and sometime in April or May, during National Volunteer Week , when Independent Sector often issues its updated data on the value of a volunteer hour. What’s even cooler is how the value jumps higher when volunteers give their professional skills in law, finance, marketing, operations, you name it. So here’s the good news.

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"Great Places To Work" Employee Perks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, January 20, 2011 "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks StLouis magazine is featuring in its January issue 60 companies that they deemed "great places to work". Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.

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Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Employee pay often is not the most important driver for employee retention. To learn more about employee retention and the reasons employees decide to leave an organization, read Overland Park, KS author Leigh Branhams book, The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave. In fourth place is an organizations financial stability.

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What To Think About For Next Year

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. How Employees Approach Problem Solving Entrepreneur magazines March 2009 issue published this insightful advice about how different types of employees like to tackle problem solving: GEN Y Employees -- Form a team to brainstorm a solution.

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Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees?

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Business leaders can read Overland Park, KS’s Leigh Branham’s books: • The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave • Re-Engage to learn more about why employees leave their workplaces (including non-financial reasons), and what leaders can do to boost employee retention. Both are excellent books.

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Use A Board Of Advisors

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The Leadership Challenge -- "This book examines the practices that make leaders effective and teaches aspiring leaders how to inspire and lead others," explained Burkus. Coaching is the difference between giving orders and teaching people how to get things done. Dont limit your time for only your direct reports.