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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 and the uncertainty of how to react spread across the United States and Canada, people holed up in their houses and apartments. Many people worked from home, if their work could be done that way. Students gravitated to online classes. Restaurants shut down.

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobsen Blog

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” When the class graduates after a year they join the Leadership Academy Alumni Association and I meet with that group every month just to do a Q&A.

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Flashback: Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobsen Blog

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” When the class graduates after a year they join the Leadership Academy Alumni Association and I meet with that group every month just to do a Q&A.

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Improving Your Nonprofit’s Internal Culture: A Mini Guide

Greater Giving

Your organization relies on outside support to move its mission forward, and your donors, volunteers , corporate partners, and community connections want to associate with organizations that take care of the people working for them. Pay close attention to their suggestions and comments, and plan to act on the information.

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Improving Your Nonprofit’s Internal Culture

Greater Giving

Your organization relies on outside support to move its mission forward, and your donors, volunteers , corporate partners, and community connections want to associate with organizations that take care of the people working for them. Pay close attention to their suggestions and comments, and plan to act on the information.

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Flashback To Best New Leadership Book Of 2014

Eric Jacobsen Blog

My favorite chapters are: Know Your People Tell Stories Create a Culture of Advocacy Build Loyalty and Engagement from the Middle Bring People Together Ask “What If?” When the class graduates after a year they join the Leadership Academy Alumni Association and I meet with that group every month just to do a Q&A.

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Surviving As A New Nonprofit: 12 Focus Areas For Nonprofit Leaders

Bloomerang

Business leaders know their venture lives and dies on its profit margins and they pay special attention to every factor that can influence that. Few people are drawn to running a nonprofit in the hope of late nights completing paperwork. One personally drafted letter is worth twenty mass communications. Avoid poor record keeping.