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Training Nonprofit Staff & Volunteers Effectively in 5 Steps

Get Fully Funded

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? Then there’s your workforce—both paid and volunteer. Today is the day you’re going to shed the “vacation” mentality of training your nonprofit staff and volunteers. Instead, it’s creating a new normal entirely.

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VoteByMail makes it easier to request a mail-in ballot ahead of the election

The Verge

is a new service created by volunteers with work experience at several prominent companies, including Google, Intel, Dropbox, and Nike, that aims to help registered voters sign up for a mail-in ballot. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. A new website tries to streamline the process of signing up to vote by mail. VoteByMail.io

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Supporting nonpartisan voter engagement to build a more inclusive democracy 

Candid

For example, The California Community Foundation hosted trainings for its grantees as well as those of peer funders on topics like voter contact, volunteer recruitment, navigating voter data, and voter rights.

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The #1 Skill Nonprofit Professionals Should Focus on in 2021

DipJar

Marketing is also how your staff and volunteers feel and talk about your nonprofit in their everyday lives. When you have a good name in your community or discipline, the risk of a client, funder, or volunteer associating themselves with you goes down. How does marketing impact your reputation?

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. You like numbers?

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Dorothy is a startup that offers faster cash post-disaster

TechCrunch

They met each other in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and explored different ways to solve the challenges of disaster finance. She volunteered with recovery efforts, and I “went house to house in the Rockaways to remove drywall from their basements,” she said.

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Debunking 7 Common Myths For New Nonprofit Professionals

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You’re working where there’s more client demand than resources, not enough staff, tough working conditions, a non-paycheck-motivated labor force (also known as volunteers ), and a much-needed mission that may be broadly unpopular. Have you volunteered? Any one of these can define “not easy.” That’s great.