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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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In the first blog post of this series, we discussed the basics that need to occur to onboard any volunteer at any level. Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? Get Them Trained.

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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

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Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Bo Eason Teaches You How To Achieve Your A-Game In Life

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle. You get paid for the practice, for the rehearsal, for the training that led you to that performance. You’ve got to make rehearsal, practice, training the center of your universe. He includes those distractions and makes them part of his game.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Art of Good Openings and Closings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One thing I have learned working mostly outside of the US is to start a training by honoring a local tradition. I used it for my master class at Connecting Up in Australia as I have used it for almost every training I’ve done over the past twenty years. Here’s how it works. Connecting Up Master Class.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

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A few suggestions were about outside training to improve your skills. Training, reading, and practicing are three key elements in becoming a better leader. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. But, being a manager is a learned skill.

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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teachgreen hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. More than a hundred hand-selected volunteers are highly trained in interview techniques, media relations and public speaking to become Greenpeace spokespeople. They offer direction, supervision and make outings fun.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

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Here's peek into what we've been up to: TechSoup Global has two new posts on the Markets for Good blog, an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector.

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