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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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But, you need more than just a volunteer handbook to make sure your volunteers have a positive experience and want to continue serving. Policies and procedures give volunteers the information and structure they need to feel confident in their role, especially when they are just getting started. Does the parent have to accompany them?

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Is the need for more beds seasonal? Set clear expectations for your Board.

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Top 5 Tips to Build Your Fundraising Event Committee

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Think about all the teens that need community service hours!) Their support can help make or break your day-of event experience. The structure the committee provides also makes succession planning easier in the long run. Start by determining your event structure and the positions you need. The sooner the better!

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Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Volunteering

Connection Cafe

Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured. With this in mind, employee engagement professionals transitioned their volunteer events into a virtual setting with little to no experience beforehand.

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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This is the last post in a series of post about my experience at SXSW. There were several requests for copies of the structure of our panelists spreadsheets and reports and those will be published in a separate blog post and gallery of spreadsheets. What follows below are the “ah ha” moments of insight.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

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In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. It seems like when that happens, you'd have to ask yourself: should we change the system based on this experience, or did this push us beyond our ability? In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. In the meantime, here are some. Sometimes it is.

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