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Onboarding the Board—Your Opportunity to Promote Peak Performance

.orgSource

They are wise stewards of our resources and visionaries who identify strategies for future growth. And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. Assigning a mentor is one of the most effective strategies to ensure that new directors get up to speed quickly. the organization’s greatest asset?

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22 Membership Benefits Your Nonprofit Can Offer

Neon CRM

This might mean educational resources, research reports, and industry insights that non-members cannot access. For professional associations, these resources can help your members stay informed and up-to-date in their field. This is not only beneficial to mentees; it’s also rewarding for mentors. Let’s get at it!

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Onboarding New Fundraising Ambassadors: 3 Strategies for Nonprofits

Media Cause

This is key to empowering your ambassadors and giving them the skills they need to fundraise with success. . Create a mentor program. . Provide materials for the event and beyond: Provide guidebooks, marketing materials, templates, and other helpful resources to help educate and train your ambassadors. It’s a win-win!

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

ASU Lodestar Center

While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Performance evaluations are an imperative aspect of leading and growing. Evaluations should not be about power, judgment, blame or failure.

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How to Start a Volunteer Program: 12 Steps for Success

Bloomerang

Volunteers provide nonprofits with the on-the-ground support they need to further their missions, whether that means helping to build homes, providing meals for food-insecure families, mentoring local youths, or cleaning up trash at local parks. Evaluate your volunteer program. Evaluate your volunteer program. Train volunteers.

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How Can Nonprofits Build High-Performing Teams?

ASU Lodestar Center

With limited people and financial resources, leaders of nonprofit organizations must execute strong management styles that develop the talent of their teams, foster healthy working environments and encourage retention of valuable employees. Approach Human Resources Strategically. Unlike for-profits, nonprofits must do more with less.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The people with skills are out there.

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