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3 Reasons To Incorporate Volunteers With Your Tech

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Volunteers are often the unsung heroes of the nonprofit sector. The Third Sector Today originally talked about a volunteer’s importance, and how incorporating them into your tech strategy can pay dividends. Americans volunteered 7.9 Americans volunteered 7.9 Incorporated volunteers are happy volunteers.

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5 Ways To Incorporate Mobile Tech Into Your Volunteer Program

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Today’s volunteers are tech-savvy, and very busy. So why not engage volunteers where they spend most of their time–on their mobile phone. Check out these 5 tips from VolunteerMatch.com , on engaging volunteers and supporters via a mobile device: Text Reminders. Image courtesy of The Cause Project. Live Tweet.

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Know Your Volunteers To Drive Better Volunteers

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of of Americans over the age of 16 volunteered in some capacity between 2009, and 2013. Whether it’s through public out reach, word of mouth, or online recruitment, finding the best and brightest volunteers is difficult. Learn how to better manage your volunteers. So how do you find better volunteers? Click Here!

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The 6 Hidden Benefits Of Volunteering

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As if contributing to a cause that’s bigger than yourself wasn’t reason enough to give your time, volunteering your time to a charitable cause has some hidden benefits, too. If it is so intuitively obvious that volunteering is beneficial to someone, why is volunteering at a 10 year low ? Volunteering helps to combat depression.

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Attract Tech Volunteers To Your Nonprofit With These 5 Tips

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We all know nonprofits don’t have a huge budget for a full IT support staff, but some nonprofits look for volunteers to help keep the technology cranking. Idealware lists several great suggestions to attracting more and better technology volunteers. Industry News Tech it staff techie technology volunteer'

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How Nonprofit Use Tech To Increase Transparency

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Whether they be donors, employees, volunteers, partners, sponsors just someone who likes to read your blog, nonprofits are leveraging technology to allow the public a looking glass into the inner working of their organizations. Industry News Social Tech nonprofit nonprofit technology nonprofits npTech volunteers' Idea testing.

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Volunteers Or Donors: The Millennial Question

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What you might not have known, is that donations and volunteering often go hand in hand. In a study conducted by the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, those who said they’d volunteered in the last 12 months donated as much as 10x more than respondents who had not volunteered at all in that same time span. Donors or volunteers?

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