article thumbnail

5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. As one who has always considered their work in the sector a “ calling ” versus a job, I’ve been lucky to have some amazing mentors. 5 Reasons Why Should Make Mentoring A Priority by Porter Gale.

Mentoring 137
article thumbnail

Volunteer Week: Orientation for Your Leadership

Greater Giving

Equipping them with volunteer orientation knowledge ensures they understand the value proposition of volunteers and can champion: Effective Volunteer Recruitment: Board members and committee members can leverage their networks to attract skilled volunteers. This allows for open discussion, brainstorming, and knowledge sharing.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

It takes careful strategy and deep knowledge of your donor to get the results you’re looking for. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . Your list might look something like this: Andrea’s success story.

Results 122
article thumbnail

10 Must-Have Skills for Nonprofit New Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The ability to tell a story that captures the imagination of your donors and supporters and consequently inspires them to donate or get more involved is a skill only found in those who enjoy and excel at writing and who are committed to consistently improving their writing, grammar, and punctuation skills as well as increasing their vocabulary.

Skills 279
article thumbnail

Interview with Carolyn Appleton: How to Launch Your Grant Writing Career

Qgiv

She’s known for tackling seemingly impossible fundraising efforts and turning them into success stories. You can tell the story about your nonprofit’s work through its budget. If you can get “real life” experience with a mentor(s) by volunteering for a nonprofit in the development office, do it! My mind was a sponge.

Grant 52
article thumbnail

From The Bench To The Boardroom

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The book (co-authored by Dick Weiss ) chronicles Michael’s story of going from an underdog athlete to a turnaround CEO, and how he took his student-athlete experience and translated those learned lessons to successes in his career. How early in life should someone find a mentor? An example could be a coach, teacher, or manager.

article thumbnail

Five Limiting Beliefs of Nonprofit Leaders

NonProfit Hub

This is not an uncommon story. The idea of a mentorship, webinar, or investment in a conference is dubbed a waste of time or money unless they’re the one teaching or mentoring. Thankfully, I had far more encouraging mentors in my life who pushed me to go for it. If anything, we simply needed to bring in more volunteer help.