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Gateway Pet Guardians Create a Unique Points-Based Reward Program Using VolunteerHub’s Gamification Module

Volunteer Hub

Gateway Pet Guardians is using VolunteerHub to engage in-person and virtual volunteers amid COVID-19 through a unique gamification strategy. Gateway Pet Guardians , a nonprofit organization located in East St. Louis, IL, is working hard to create a thriving pet welfare community in the east side pet district.

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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

Volunteer Hub

The Importance of Volunteers. “The value that volunteers provide our organization is tremendous. We could not achieve our goals and provide the support we do to the community without our volunteer’s commitment to the cause,” said Mary Bachman, Director of Volunteer Resources, Catholic Charities of St.

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6 Reasons SEO Is Important to Nonprofits and Why

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This is how you keep new donors, volunteers or program participants flowing into your organization. Your organization will rank better for searches that include your area like “dog rescue St. Louis,” and rank without an area mention, like “dog rescue.” 5) SEO can help you get local attention.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. A related research question is the impact or positive incentive of volunteer stipends among low-wage earners (McBride, Gonzales, Morrow-Howell, & McCrary, 2011). As part of a.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

volunteers? This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Or volunteers who participate on a weekly basis. So perhaps the St.

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NetSquared Events to Cure Your Social Media Ailments

Tech Soup

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared St. Louis in St. Louis, Missouri. San Francisco, California: Technology Platforms for Volunteering. Saint Louis, Missouri: What Is NetSquared St. Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June. Newest Groups.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. These kids are different from the mostly middle or upper-class white kids who volunteer at many science centers. The Taylor Center is a testbed for the St.