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Volunteer Matching: Recruiting the Best Volunteer for Each Role

The Volunteer Hub

Strategically matching volunteers with assignments that allow them to excel can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization achieve its mission. Effectively utilizing your volunteer workforce can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization reach its mission.

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Dr. James explains what happens when fundraising metrics go bad

iMarketSmart

But they aren’t helpful as a short-term metric to guide behavior. Metrics can help, but only a little. Using lots of metrics isn’t leadership. When metrics reflect a top-down distrust of fundraisers, they don’t help.[16] Short-term, transactional behavior signals the absence of a mutual sharing or helping relationship.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In response, I returned to school to study fundraising and nonprofit sector leadership and their relationship to normative ethics. This theory relates to what American economist James Andreoni calls impure altruism , the inherent tension between philanthropy and self-interest.

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