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What are the Biggest Challenges in Getting (and Keeping) Your Nonprofit’s Staff and Volunteers?

Blue Avocado

When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” It has been increasingly difficult to not only recruit and retain skilled staff, but just to get them to the interview process! ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

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Strategies For Building Sustainable Support For Homelessness Initiatives

Bloomerang

These challenges make sustainable donor support essential for creating lasting solutions. For nonprofit professionals serving rural communities, building strong donor relationships starts with clear communication about local needs and measurable outcomes.

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NPR CEO Katherine Maher makes the case for why public radio is essential to American democracy

Fast Company Tech

Maher gives a preview to her testimony, sharing how funding cuts would impact Americans broad access to crucial news and information, particularly in rural and local areas. This is an abridged transcript of an interview from Rapid Response , hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company Bob Safian. It’s a lot of practice.

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The Looming Membership Cliff: What Associations Can and Should Be Doing

The MatrixFiles

Over the last year, I noticed an alarming trend popping up in my interviews with CEOs on my podcast, Associations Thrive. Strategies for Mitigating the Membership Cliff So how are associations addressing membership challenges and declines? Invest in localized and hybrid networking opportunities to meet members where they are.

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9 Lessons Learned from Hosting Virtual Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An in-person event can seem like a challenge to take online. You can remove significant technical challenges by having a single video with all your elements combined – even your “live” host. In addition to offering chat, make a local phone number available to your viewers during the program.

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Interview: Kedar Iyer, PickyPolly

Amy Sample Ward

I found the project so interesting that I wanted to share it with you here in an interview, covering some key questions from Kedar. Community production: Encouraging entrepreneurs to find community solutions to meet the localized needs. Tags: interview application conservation engagement environment innovation mobile.

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Adapt and Overcome

VQ Strategies

Adapt and Overcome: How 2020 Brings Innovation and Flexibility for Volunteer-Led Programs For the US Marines, the concept of “Adapt and Overcome” is central to their philosophy of innovation and problem solving to address all challenges, unexpected situations, and chaotic environments. We generally had 20-30 warriors at each meeting.