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Michelle’s RiseUP Fellowship Experience: RiseUP Fellow to Full Time Employee

Media Cause

Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Onboarding Your Program and Fundraising Volunteers

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Your Program Volunteers Your Fundraising Volunteers Get Them Trained Provide Them with Useful Tools. Why do all this if you’re just having somebody spoon green beans onto a lunch tray? Train Them On the Job. Next, you’ll want to train them on the specifics of the task you expect them to do. Get Them Trained.

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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. Becoming certified as an orange hat is recognition of commitment and skill–it’s a real accomplishment. 7000 kilometres away in India, Haiyya is training the next generation of community organisers.

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Doing Museum Work: Your Thoughts

Museum 2.0

But, being a manager is a learned skill. A few suggestions were about outside training to improve your skills. Training, reading, and practicing are three key elements in becoming a better leader. As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums.

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Bo Eason Teaches You How To Achieve Your A-Game In Life

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Navy Seals, Green Berets, and firefighters have to use this same principle. The number one skill you need to overcome challenges in life is commitment. You get paid for the practice, for the rehearsal, for the training that led you to that performance. You’ve got to make rehearsal, practice, training the center of your universe.

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YouthBuild Boston: A TechSoup Youth Organization Profile

Tech Soup

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. They even use TechSoup Microsoft software donations to rehab used computers for their training labs. The Mission of After School Programs.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job. Purchasing Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design through TechSoup made it possible to offer training in Photoshop and Premier Pro.

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