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Hey Non-profit CEOs! Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Volunteer Manager.

November 17, 2021

Hello Non-profit CEOs! Wondering what to gift your Leader of Volunteers this holiday season? I’ve got you covered.

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Who Gets to Define Excellence? IVMDAY

November 3, 2021

What is an expert, anyway? According to Dictionary.com, an expert is: a person who has special skill or knowledge in some particular field; specialist; authority, Woah, wait a minute. Authority?

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The Invisible Lines of Connection

October 20, 2021

What was it that drew me to them, and them to me? Did we share similar backgrounds? Heck no. Did we share similar experiences, thoughts, tastes, preferences? Nope.

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I’m Not Nice. Not Really.

October 6, 2021

Volunteer managers must stop allowing the notion that we are nice. No. Not nice. Not pleasant, not cheery, not sweet, not friendly, not genial, and especially not obliging, cheerful, amiable or agreeable.

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Volunteer Time Donor or Time Investor?

September 15, 2021

Doesn’t it feel like investing is closer to what volunteers do? Maybe we should start to rethink this whole time donor idea.

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Lies and well, more lies

September 1, 2021

She turned. “The volunteers are well meaning, but sometimes they think they know better than the actual people who work here.”

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Are You a Steel Trap, A Sieve or A Spigot?

August 18, 2021

Working for a nonprofit, I quickly learned that unless stuff was written in a memo, information was pretty much filtered …

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If You Love What You Do, It’s Not Work…Wait, Really?

August 4, 2021

Most of us didn’t seek out volunteer management because we loved it, but stumbled into volunteer management and fell in love with the work.

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Until the Family Member Said, “No.”

July 21, 2021

My organization developed a solid volunteer strategy. One volunteer even referred to it as a rescue team of angels who …

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When a Volunteer Has Your Back

July 7, 2021

I was des-per-ate for any able-bodied human to help me on the box truck I would borrow to pick up donated furniture…

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