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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Volunteer applications can also uncover valuable skills, interests, and certifications. Create opportunities to ask open-ended questions to continue learning about their skills and interests and ask for feedback within your communications to improve your programs. It can increase productivity and speed.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

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Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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Why Is Communication Important in Project Management?

Media Cause

Discover why communication tools are important to include for effective project management Google Products Shared Google Sheets and Docs work well to facilitate asynchronous work and communication at a low cost. Google Docs can be used to create collaborative agendas or meeting minutes.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

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How much tech skill is required? With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets.

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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogging Basics: Managing Information Overload: How to find your blogging community Join Beth Kanter, who has been writing about what she prefers to call "online information coping skills" since the 1990s, when we mostly had to worry about email. My outline is here. Do you get anxious if you are away from the Internet for too long?

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

A group that is better known for their interpersonal skills than their tech-savvy was suddenly thrust into new technology waters. Some rely primarily on generic workplace tools like Google Docs and Microsoft apps, but others invest in industry applications like Better Impact and Volgistics.

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The Advantages Of Online Strategic Planning

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You may be excited about trying out the online brainstorming tool you just heard about but make sure that what you choose matches the skills of your participants. So for some groups Zoom and a google doc, and the occasional Jamboard, will be a perfect match. Loom is good for this and very easy to use.

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