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Volunteer Management & Retention Best Practices for Nonprofits

Qgiv

Volunteers are the backbone of every nonprofit’s workforce, and having a good volunteer staff helps your organization accomplish more for your cause. To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization.

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Leveraging Engagement to Sustain Our Organizations

VQ Strategies

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Clearly, our need to advocate for volunteer engagement is more vital than ever.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions. Here’s what I learned.

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7 Techniques for Event Fundraising Success

NetWits

The seven event fundraising techniques or “best practices&# described here emerged from analyzing data and interviewing nonprofit event and development staff. On average, organizations set up online events about 5.5 Train your event staff regarding what’s new in this year’s website. months before the event begins.

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5 ways to practice employee empowerment at your association

Nimble AMS

To ensure your organization thrives, you’ll need to invest in your staff. Read our blog for five employee empowerment strategies you can adopt at your organization today. Likewise, your organization can suffer. This is where you can utilize employee empowerment. Offer training. Here’s how to get started: 1.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on.

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Your 2024 New Year's Resolution Check-In

Eric Jacobsen Blog

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)