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Want To Be a Leader? Get to Know Yourself

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And, without self-awareness, it’s impossible to be a role model for others. Success requires intention, practice, honesty, and effort. You can’t rely on staffers in your organization to fill this role. Career coaches and mentors are great. Become an active listener by practicing these skills. Engage fully.

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Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Meaningful Volunteer Roles: By understanding volunteer skill sets and motivations, leadership can advocate for the creation of impactful volunteer roles. Leadership can champion practices like clear communication, appreciation, and growth opportunities to retain volunteers.

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Mastering Employee Engagement: Best Practices + 13 Ideas

Nonprofits Source

If your organization takes on corporate philanthropy as an engagement practice, you can change real people’s lives. Each role has specific responsibilities, and training helps set a foundation for each worker’s confidence. Leaders can incentivize participation by providing free meals to mentors and mentees. Mentorship programs.

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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Outline the participant role.

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A Grateful Note to End 2020

VQ Strategies

While it would be easy to focus on the many difficulties that this year delivered (and we don’t take any of those lightly), for this exercise in reflection, we choose the lens of gratitude – as we learned from our mentor and friend Jill Friedman Fixler who perfected the practice of gratitude [1]. Thank you. [1]

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Seven tips to survey staff at your association and improve employee engagement

Nimble AMS

Is your association staff satisfied in their current roles? You’ll learn if they are satisfied in their current role and what steps your organization can take to improve the situation. Online survey: An online survey is one of the most successful survey models. Do they feel overworked or stressed?

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How can nonprofits bridge the gap between race and leadership?

ASU Lodestar Center

Respondents of color report greater workplace challenges than white respondents, including: Lack of role models. Racial biases in employers’ recruitment practices. Community partners, donors and volunteers can see when an organization is not being holistic in their DEI practices. Lack of social capital.