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Why Self-Interested Volunteers are the Best for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Orange hats” are assistant crew leaders who teach “green hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment. It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress.

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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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Now we’re going to look at the next step, and what some people might consider why any volunteer is really there: getting the volunteer up to speed on their specific role, and duties within that role. Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? Think of it this way: 121/41.

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

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And your role (board or staff) determines how you contribute to the overall security of the nonprofit with which you are affiliated. The third section of the study addresses the role of the governing board and asks and answers the following question, "Do board function and performance affect organizational effectiveness?"

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. The LIN mission is to foster a culture of philanthropy and social responsibility by providing support services to local nonprofits, skilled volunteers, and donors who are committed to building strong communities.

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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Social enterprise and entrepreneurship started to address social issues in a community. So, it was generally focused on some social issue that was often around employment and/or to develop opportunities for farmers. The role it plays is to really focus on the entrepreneur. Our role is to really help the cultural entrepreneur.

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

Tech Soup

Philanthropists, nonprofits, and the development sector as a whole cannot underestimate the role they have to play in understanding and using technology for development. Clever Together: “A world in which highly coordinated and successful strategies emerge for addressing both urgent and entrenched worldwide issues.”

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Nonprofit Blog Exchange

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They were normal kids, except they lived in the Cabrini-Green neighborhood of Chicago, where the role models and life experiences were anything but what normal kids in most parts of America grow up with. I’m not a teacher by training and I don’t have special skills. For information call 312-492-9614. Address: 800 W.

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