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Are nonprofit volunteer retention strategies vital to a thriving team?

ASU Lodestar Center

The answers stem from how volunteer management and key organizational leadership view volunteer retention - the ability to keep volunteers long-term. Difficult times, such as COVID-19, can intensify those challenges if an adequate retention plan is not in place with the ability to properly implemented it.

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Continuous Enrollment: The Pros and Cons

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Rather than opt-in re-enrollment, where all parents/guardians must sign new contracts to enroll their children each school year, continuous enrollment is an opt-out process that higher education institutions have used for decades. What is continuous enrollment? Some circumstances require new contracts. What is the bottom line?

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How can nonprofit recruiting strategies improve organizational effectiveness?

ASU Lodestar Center

Leaders who wish to successfully run a nonprofit and continue to positively impact society in the future will need to focus their energy in three key areas: staff recruitment, fundraising, and donor and staff retention. She and her husband have four children and have lived in Arizona for over 40 years. Recruiting. recruitment, 2.)

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise.

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Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How

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Stronger Advocacy: There’s strength in numbers, and a strong membership base provides organizations with more voices to amplify their cause, advocate for policy changes, influence the community, and raise awareness for their mission. However, developing membership models often comes with challenges, too.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

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Thanks to Darren DeRose, the IT Administrator for Children's Network of Solano County in Fairfield, California, having a shared database is no longer such a problem. The Children’s Network of Solano County does lots of things to support low-income families across their county.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

According to Classy’s Donor Retention Handbook , monthly donors were five times more valuable to nonprofits as they gave 440% more throughout their lives than one-time donors. David is a current program supervisor for the CASA program in Lane County, whose mission it is to supply children in the child welfare system volunteer advocates.