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Shared Leadership’s Role in Piloting the Plane

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

It’s the crew that knows who is on board, what baggage they brought, their feelings about flying, and how to help people cope with turbulence.  When the Captain comes on the PA system to inform everyone about the flight plan, they often sound like ‘the adults’ in the Peanuts specials. What would their influence be? What was the purpose?

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The Psychology of Giving: 18 Tips to Increase Donor Retention and Lifetime Value

Nonprofit Megaphone

The real challenge lies in retaining those donors over the long-term and increasing their lifetime value. By gaining an understanding of why people give and what motivates them to continue giving, non-profits can develop strategies to increase donor retention and lifetime value.

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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 why sustainable giving starts by answering, “Do we have a shared future?”

iMarketSmart

Without this, reciprocal altruism fails. Capacity for reciprocity in nature: Strangers vs. neighbors In nature, reciprocal altruism starts with the same question: Do we have a shared future? (In Without this shared future, reciprocal helping disappears. Reciprocal altruism starts with this question: Do we have a shared future?

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10 Ways to Immediately Invest in Your Nonprofit Organization

NonProfit Hub

Your nonprofit exists to help the world. You want every possible dollar you get to help fulfill your mission. Believe us, it’s not altruism. Starting your nonprofit blog means beginning a journey that will help you enormously long term, but it takes a ton of work to begin and maintain initially, even for the first few months.

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Agitator Cliff Notes: What’s Next?

The Agitator

Ways to create value in digital marketing. How is your culture helping reach your mission (or sabotaging that effort)? A great intro to effective altruism. Studied with him in college and these are both great to help with numeracy. Retention espresso. Dan Ariely ’s anything. J ames Comey’s A Higher Loyalty.

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How transactional donor relationships kill generosity

iMarketSmart

In a scale, it might look like this: Helpful reciprocity Loved one (lover, spouse, close family) Friend Teammate Colleague Neighbor Community member Transactional reciprocity Customer Merchant Stranger Harmful reciprocity Competitor Enemy Relationship signals are reciprocity signals. It’s saying, “We’re not here to help you!”