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Improve Your Org’s Professional Development Program: 4 Tips

Top Nonprofits

They should be displayed in your culture, organizational processes and policies, and public interactions. Encourage participation in your program. Even the most carefully curated professional development program will produce lackluster results if your staff does not participate. Encourage a culture of continuous learning.

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How to Build a Truly Inclusive Nonprofit Volunteer Program

NonProfit Quarterly

If that slice is elderly, White, male, and English-speaking, we ought not to be surprised when a young Latina immigrant opts not to participate. We mean the pressure to conform to the prevailing culture or way of doing things. Often, we hardly notice culture until we see somebody doing things differently.

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How Fundraisers Can Reconcile the Competition that Exists Between Your Donors’ & Administrators’ Hero Stories

iMarketSmart

Culture conflict. Effective fundraising culture isn’t just different from the rest of the nonprofit. Alan Clayton explains, “The fundraiser has to be a truly awesome person because what in effect they are doing is running a private sector culture business, inside an academic, medical or public sector culture organisation.”[4].

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5 Essential Benefits of Employee Training for Nonprofits

Top Nonprofits

Improved employee retention. Your staff members will appreciate your commitment to their career goals and feel more motivated to apply new skills to their roles. Enlist some of your more experienced staff members to become mentors and strengthen their leadership skills while serving as positive role models to their mentees.

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Donor-Centric or Faux Donor-Centric? Check the Plumbing.

The Agitator

We “exalt” the “philosophers” by reviewing books on how best to communicate with donors…we attempt to cover the latest research on donor motivation…we deal with important issues like donor identity and preference. Are all departments aware of and focused on the same donor retention, commitment and satisfaction goals?

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What Is Volunteerism? A Guide to the History & Benefits

Bloomerang

One example is the Rotary Club, which was formed as a place for people of different backgrounds, cultures, and beliefs to come together and exchange valuable ideas, create friendships, and make a change. Volunteering allows participants to gain new skills and knowledge in areas that interest them most. Boost donations.

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Leading Together for Systems Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States.