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4 Strategies for Building Lasting Volunteer Relationships

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Policies and procedures: Provide documents that cover safety regulations, attendance and scheduling expectations, communication and reporting procedures, dress code, and any other codes of conduct volunteers are expected to follow. Providing public recognition. Additionally, ensure communication with your volunteers is two-way.

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Minter-Jordan Picked As New CEO At AARP

The NonProfit Times

CareQuest Institute collaborates with a wide range of partners to achieve its mission of improving the oral health of all through work in grantmaking, research, health improvement programs, policy and advocacy, and education, as well as leadership in dental benefits, care delivery, and innovation advancements.

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How does your nonprofit involve the local community in its programs and initiatives?

Blue Avocado

Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Partner with Local Businesses and Offer Valuable Information As a historical society, we obviously link with other history-focused nonprofits, but we have developed many other relationships in both the public and private sectors. Of course, we take advantage of social media.

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Meet the Hidden Majority of Nonprofits: The All-Volunteer Organization

NonProfit Quarterly

In this series, The Unexpected Value of Volunteers , author Jan Masaoka takes on the underappreciated topic of volunteerism, provides some unexpected ideas, and points the way toward a public policy agenda on volunteerism. Others may support public institutions like local PTAs and Friends of the Library chapters.

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Beyond the Moment: How Nonprofits Can Leverage Civic Engagement

NonProfit Quarterly

Khalil acted as a negotiator and spokesperson during protests at the university that advocated for Palestinian human rights and divestment from companies tied to Israeli occupation policies. Civic engagement is any action you take to participate in and improve your community, influence public decisions, or shape a more inclusive society.

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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

According to The Generosity Commission, they instead are complex actions that go straight to the core of civil society and democracy, which includes declining trust of institutions and neighbors and social isolation. The rate of volunteerism, as measured by the Current Population Survey of the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

At the same time, within this austerity framework, nonprofits increasingly fill holes in sectors ranging from education to healthcare to journalism to social services that we depend on the most and that have been receiving less and less government support. There’s also the kind of “emotional labor” involved in courting individual donors.