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How can effective leadership succession planning result in nonprofit sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

Training, development and resource support are often scarce within the sector, leading to increased workload and decreased training for necessary roles, which adds to the “struggle to hire and train employees,” as Paul Light asserts. Create a trajectory and people will be future-motivated. Validate your work.

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How can employee engagement strategies ensure nonprofit success?

ASU Lodestar Center

The process should be 30 to 90 days to ensure the employee feels supported and transitions into their new role successfully. Sabrina Esquivel is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. This is a way to begin fostering employee engagement right away. Development.

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How can nonprofit recruiting strategies improve organizational effectiveness?

ASU Lodestar Center

Azra Hussain is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. She is the co-founder and president of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona, where she trains speakers and creates educational interfaith events.

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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

Treat volunteers and the roles asked of them with respect and importance. Give every volunteer a written job title, a job description, and the appropriate training to fulfill the role they have accepted. Brian Hetzer is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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The voice and vision of the volunteer

ASU Lodestar Center

By investing in resources, such as workshops, conferences and online courses from accredited colleges and universities, nonprofits have benefited from their improvement of incorporating volunteers into nonprofit organizations. Standardization of who manages volunteers is the next step in maximizing the effect of volunteer management.

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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit leaders play an integral role in the promise of social equity. Without leadership prioritizing equitable practices, class representation suffers in these roles and lessens sector diversity. David Ross is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. After completing her undergraduate degree in International Affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Rachel’s professional journey took her all over the world.