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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

VQ Strategies

This is precisely why some hospitals retain an auxiliary to run the gift shop, while also maintaining an entirely separate volunteer corps, managed by staff, to fill patient care roles. In recent years, we have conducted surveys and interviews at institutions with longstanding volunteer councils. Lessons from the Field.

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How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

sgEngage

Gather Data on Your Current Application Before you present your suggestions to your leadership, have the data on your current application ready. You can ask your grantees for feedback through surveys, interviews, focus groups, or informal conversations.

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Seven Tips on How to Use Your Digital Ecosystem to Enhance Your Fundraising

Forum One

This presents an opportunity for your organization to use your digital ecosystem to enhance your fundraising. . Use surveys or conduct interviews with your donors, or ideal prospects, on a continuous basis to gain insight on what your donors want and where your organization can improve. Ask your donors what you can do better.

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Latest Issue of NTEN:Change is Live: Myth-Busting, Everyday Innovation, Case-Studies, Confessions, and More

NTEN

An Interview with representatives from the UN Global Pulse Initiative. An episode of the "askDeborah" podcast series, presented by the CTK Foundation. I n it you'll find: " Five Communications Myths that Executive Directors Believe ," from Kivi Leroux Miller, based on the 2012 Communications Trends Report.

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Network + Self-Organizing + Location + Data Visualization = 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For more traditional institutions that have worked in a particular way, embracing this tool might require addressing some cultural/change management issues first. My Plancast for SXSW Session: Crowdsourcing Social Change. Or, if you're presenting complex ideas - to be able to provide a macro, micro view.

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Issue 9 of NTEN:Change: Risks and Rewards

NTEN

What is the risk of not adapting to a changing technology culture? This issue of NTEN:Change presents variations on that theme: tips and quizzes, inspiration and cautionary tales, examples and humor, all from peers and experts in the nonprofit and technology communities. How can we be sure that the rewards outweigh the risks?

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Using a Matrix Map to View Impact and Profitability

NonProfit Hub

Denise McMahan is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub, and is the founder and publisher of CausePlanet.org where nonprofit leaders devour Page to Practiceâ„¢ book summaries, author interviews and sticky applications from the must-read books they recommend. _.

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