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7 ways to increase volunteer engagement

Nimble AMS

If so, your challenge may be with volunteer engagement and creating meaningful experiences for volunteers so they’re willing to give their time. . Build hype. Offer mentor/mentee volunteer programs. It can be a challenge to keep your volunteers engaged outside of their prearranged volunteer hours. Personal perks.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

Museums have a dual challenge now. We selected girls and they go out on the road and we get them with great mentors. Have you gotten any negative feedback about it being too superficial or hyped for a research program? I don’t think it’s a lot of hype. You can go to Michael’s and learn to sew, knit, do crafts.

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[VIDEO] Strategies for Retaining Your Peer-to-Peer Fundraisers and Donors

Bloomerang

Another really cool reason that this is something that we can focus on is because returning participants are great mentors for newer participants who maybe aren’t as familiar with your organization, or your fundraising event, or your tools. So you can kind of get them hyped up about your next event.

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