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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Harassment: Every organization needs a harassment policy.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals to Build Resilience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while illness isn’t the most energizing start of a new year, I kept replaying the words from the ballon song in the new Mary Poppins movie, “ there is no place to go but up.” Rituals have been performed for centuries and are an important part of human history.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image from Gasland The Movie. The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations. Together, Fox and Fledgling developed an intensive outreach strategy through more than 500 community screenings.

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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

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Movie streaming services, family members and pets, and noisy neighbors all add up to one thing— limited time and attention to dedicate to e-learning during COVID-19. This isn’t the time to take a deep-dive into your nonprofit’s history. Oh, and that dining room table is also a Zoom school set-up. Prioritize content that’s valuable.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Computers, cars and antibiotics would not have made it out of the laboratory without companies; and there would be no movies, no mobile phones and no airplanes. John Browne Question: What does history tell us about the mistakes that companies make? The past is littered with the remains of firms that broke these rules.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

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Instead, during a sensitive time, Yahoo found itself publicly announcing that it had been hacked—the largest in history—by a “state-sponsored actor.” Ashley Madison had a policy of not deleting any user information, including real names, addresses, credit card information, and other information. Perhaps privacy is dead.

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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time

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It’s the person who answers your question about zoom or the person who passes on their work at home policy. And another person stopping to share tough things on some crazy thread about movies. We've morphed ourselves into an alternate history. The best guidance I’ve seen is often "small act" guidance. Damn straight, it is.

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