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Weekly Videos Provide Tips For Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Be sure to take a few minutes each week to view the HEMP Mentorship Minute videos, created by the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program and the Kansas City Business Journal. Here's a sample -- What is the best advice you ever got ?:

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The Talent Development Pipeline: Putting People First in Social Change Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love that the training activities go beyond the traditional webinars and workshops, and incorporate mentoring and on the job learning activities. A more formalized approach is far more effective. Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. Agreed upon plan. Structured, but flexible schedule and plan. Evaluation.

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Three Fabulous Conversations

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This enables great conversations: the serendipity effect is huge. Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan. I had no idea when I agreed to the mentor gig that there would be something like this I actually know something (a lot) about.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

Here are a few more reasons why taking the time to write an effective donation receipt will pay off: First impressions are everything. These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. I was part of this success story!” But in a donation receipt, it is best to choose a happy photo.

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

A small sample of the positive words they have shared include: empowered, humbled, motivated, grateful, awed, helpful, effective, connected, valuable, and inspired. Learn how to recruit, manage, motivate, recognize, and reward staff and volunteers in order to effectively mobilize their strengths.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

This sampling of funding opportunities available in their database shares both national and regional grant leads. When you use one of these, focus on using keywords or key phrases that include the type of thing or program you’re wanting to fund (art, horses, mentoring programs, etc.) and a location where the money will be used.

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Katya Andresen, Network for Good: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

It’s more fun – and it’s more effective. It’s incredibly rewarding to help others, and teaching – or mentoring – gives me a sense of accomplishment. I find the more I do this, and the more generous I am, the more happy I feel. It’s about approaching work from a place of sharing and abundance rather than self-absorption and scarcity.

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