Are You a New Volunteer Manager? Here’s Managing Volunteers 101
What do you need done? Volunteers can help you in practically any area of your job, while gaining valuable skills, and getting a positive experience with your organization. Objectives How to find and interview volunteers How to write a compelling volunteer job description What volunteers want How to praise and thank volunteers What […]
Reader Questions: How to get businesses to give you donations in 3 steps?
Do you want to get answers to these questions?
1) Cold calling on small businesses for donations – does this work? I’m not having much luck.
2) Getting your foot into large major corporations – noone on the board is well connected.
3) Business networking – most of the chamber/professional events I go to have coupon book sellers, etc —
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Are you pressuring your board? Guest post by Alexandra Peters
Alexandra Peters is a nonprofit consultant, educator, writer, and believer in the profound importance of effecting social change in the not for profit sector. For thirty years, Ms. Peters has worked to make the nonprofit world better. Today she does me the honor of guest-blogging! And apparently, she knew me when I was just a […]
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Why Online Fundraising is like Ice cream!
Before we get down to it, if you are in Austin, and interested in being a more effective fundraiser, we still have a couple of spots left in my Lean Fundraising workshop at the Center for Nonprofits tomorrow. Get on it!
This post is 3 posts for the price of one!
Yeah, you know you need to learn how to delegate, how about right now?
So, I’m going to speak it out loud, this is the dirty little secret of our profession, as development staff, as fundraisers.