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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

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And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. So how do you maintain the high level of board performance required to succeed in a disruptive business environment? The chances that people are reading and absorbing this material are slim. Except for officers, most don’t receive financial compensation.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Digital Marketing, Outreach, & Fundraising Tech Skills Map — an interactive diagram of digital competencies for nonprofit roles (free but requires you to provide contact info). It’s boring, and it doesn’t really improve people’s skills. Maybe it imparts knowledge, but people can’t transfer that to a real-life environment.

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5 Ways to Manage Volunteer Expectations

Volunteer Hub

A few of the most common expectations that volunteers have include a welcoming work environment, resources and tools needed to complete their job, training and support, accommodations and scheduling flexibility, and ongoing communication. Because of this, ongoing evaluation is crucial. Establish communication channels. Motivation.

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Developing a Product Mindset for Impact

Forum One

We’re pleased to be seeing a growing focus on products and product strategy among government agencies and nonprofit organizations, developing products and approaches that advance progress in health, the environment, and beyond. Mission-Driven Product Examples Products can be websites, but not all websites are products.

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How Classy Pivoted to Hiring Remote Employees

Classy

This is a guest post by Dina Rulli, the SVP of people operations at Classy. However, when the pandemic hit and everyone was suddenly working remotely, we were given the opportunity to get creative and rethink our recruiting and people practices. We re-evaluated the tools we were using in order to get coverage in new locations.

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Volunteer Retention: What Makes them Stay?

Volunteer Hub

With the value of a volunteer hour approaching $29 in 2022, now is the time to focus on retention and better utilize your existing volunteer contacts. Simply put, to reduce turnover and increase retention, volunteers must be pleased with the environment in which they work and motivated by the tasks to which they are assigned.

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Employee engagement: Keeping the right people

ASU Lodestar Center

Last year, Opportunity Knocks commissioned a report 1 to evaluate this question of engagement across the nonprofit workforce. In Good to Great , Jim Collins spends 24 pages dissecting employee selection and management before ultimately concluding that “people are not your most important asset. The right people are.” Get another!

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