With funders increasingly interested in the value of organizations’ volunteer programs, we explore a new model that attempts to calculate the dollar value of your volunteers’ time.
The number of communities interested in starting volunteer centres outnumbers the ones where volunteer centres are closing their doors. The future of volunteer centres hinges on building awareness, being relevant, and successfully expanding traditional functions.
A strategic planning consultant and three organizations – ranging in size from one staff member to a team of 180 – share the positives they’ve learned about strategic planning and how to overcome some of the pitfalls.
We check in with four donors from different parts of the country to find out what motivates them to give and what advice they can offer to help nonprofits be strategic in their ask.
If you are a nonprofit organization, how do you stand out among all this competition for limited space? Three media representatives explain media relations with the nonprofit sector from their side of the fence, and along the way share insider tips for getting noticed.
Whether speaking with individual consultants, consulting firms, those who focus entirely on the nonprofit sector and those who split their business between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, consultants all say the same thing about working with nonprofit clients: “It’s a partnership.”
Happy National Volunteer Week! In the midst of the festivities, let’s pause for a quieter, more reflective way to recognize our volunteers…by listening to them as they share their thoughts and ideas.
Nonprofit organizations are all too familiar with the time and effort that goes into researching funders and writing funding proposals. What they may not be as familiar with is the funder’s perspective of the same funding process.
While “mandatory volunteering” is an oxymoron, it is a growing trend that is worth watching.
As baby boomers edge toward retirement, there is lots of speculation about how they will spend their retirement years. Baby boomers have done many things differently than the generations before them – will they do retirement differently, too?
