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How nonprofits can attract and retain high-quality employees

ASU Lodestar Center

Provide low cost public transportation vouchers. By meeting the needs of self-esteem and self-actualization outlined by Maslow, employees can use the organization as an expressive output and internal satisfaction, according to Peter Frumkin in “On Being Nonprofit.”. Provide paid time off for part-time staff. Social motivations.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

He cites many studies showing that as people move up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, we have transitioned from focusing on work (a means of survival) to leisure (a means of personal fulfillment). Would it diffuse museums' core competencies to provide experiences for people like me, or would it enhance their ability to serve the public?

Museum 28
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The Struggles and Strategies of Online Organizing: An Interview with Leda Dederich

Have Fun - Do Good

Emerging technologies are great, I am all for emerging technologies; but I believe very, very strongly that it is like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: if people can't eat, then they can't go out to the fair. So that was shocking to us, the amount of organizations who were struggling with very, very basic needs. So we really have to start there.