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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

Qgiv

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? Teach Them About the Program, Too.

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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 teachgreen hats” how to do trail building and maintenance correctly. It’s the most important volunteer role one can have at Greenpeace Germany,” says Dr. Kress. Once they’ve completed the training program, Haiyya Fellows campaign on civic issues in their own neighbourhoods.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

We are here to talk about the board’s role in fundraising and resource development, one of my favorite topics, and we got one of my favorite people also here to talk about it. So, again, it’s board roles and fundraising and resource development. This is not a trick at all and you all are really in for a treat.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The story is used to teach the virtues of hard work and preparation. Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign.

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Nonprofit Blog Exchange

Have Fun - Do Good

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 started mentoring a fourth grade boy living in Cabrini-Green in 1973 and became leader of a volunteer-based program in 1975.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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A Little Bit of Gloom Between Two Slices of Hope: Diet for a Hot Planet Author, Anna Lappe

Have Fun - Do Good

We've heard a lot about the role of cars and planes. Part of it, I think, is that we've been so focused on carbon dioxide -- we've been sort of carbon-centric -- and we haven't seen the large role of food and agriculture, but I think some of the other reasons are a bit more complex than that. I think we've heard a lot less about food.