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Tribute to My Mentor

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In honor of Gerry Davis, April 2018 My mentor passed away earlier this month. I have had the benefit of numerous mentors over my long career, but Gerry Davis was The Mentor. He had graduated from Georgetown Law School just a couple of years after my dad. He also firmly suggested that I needed to change the name.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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But for the rest of us, ensuring that volunteer leaders are up to speed on the numbers is a significant responsibility. But a poor web design won’t get anyone on the bad side of the law whereas ignoring those important statements might. This includes the laws relating to financial reporting and fundraising.

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

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Many nonprofits work in tandem with volunteers to move their mission forward and keep expenses down. Engaging volunteers helps get the word out about your mission, since most volunteers share their passion with their personal and professional networks. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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How to Minimize Risk Throughout Your Grant Cycle

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But for younger organizations, you may need to guide them on how to use their fund accounting software to automate these controls or set them up with a mentor organization to help establish them. Make sure you are complying with federal and state laws that protect whistleblowers from retaliation.

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Mentoring Staff New to Nonprofit Work

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But, when considering helping young graduates transition to a career in nonprofit or even helping a mid-career professional make the leap from a for-profit vocation to one in the nonprofit sector, there are a few basics to keep in mind when mentoring a new nonprofit worker. Like this article? Get another!

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Were We Crazy to Pursue Service Enterprise Certification? Our Rewarding Journey with SEI

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posted by Susan Nusall Director of Volunteers at Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education/Arizona Bar Foundation. Our organization, the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education/Arizona Bar Foundation, is 40 years old, and we have always believed in volunteers and how much we need them in order to fulfill our mission.

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How can professional development advance nonprofit performance and ensure sustainability?

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While conferences were once the only idea in gaining professional development skills, peer-to-peer mentoring is shown to give the highest output of learned skills. Peer-to-peer learning models is a great way for staff to mentor each other and either learn a new skill or strengthen a previous skill.