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5 Signs Your Employees are Burned Out + What to Do About It

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

Then, as your organization grows and takes on new challenges, you will have a healthy, motivated team you can depend on. They arent actively participating or taking initiative. Next Steps To reinspire employees and improve active participation, consider implementing these strategies: Build a safe space for sharing ideas.

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What Is Volunteerism? A Guide to the History & Benefits

Bloomerang

This is why volunteerism has played such a major role throughout history. In this guide, we’ll take a broad look at volunteerism to explore its history and benefits. Then, we’ll review how your organization can promote volunteerism in your community and manage volunteers effectively. Let’s take a closer look at this phenomenon!

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What Would a Gift Economy Approach to Running a Nonprofit Look Like?

NonProfit Quarterly

Viewing Volunteerism through a Gift Economy Lens So, if the business mindset fails nonprofits when engaging volunteers, what is the alternative? What strikes me about gift economies is how much better the principles align with volunteerism than market principles. In Braiding Sweetgrass.

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The Millennial Impact Report: Q&A with Derrick Feldmann

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

It is a fairly comprehensive account of the attitudes and behaviors of Millennial (and non-Millennial) employees’ approaches to volunteerism and charitable giving within diverse work settings. Nearly half (45%) of Millennial employees participated in a company-wide volunteer day. Know your employees!

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Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?

NonProfit Quarterly

Participating as panelists are Jule Hall of the Innocence Project, Alissa Quart of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Amarah Sedreddine , general counsel at Sedreddine & Whoriskey. I don’t think it’s a big lift—more interaction from senior leadership, board members, and people on the ground, the people we are supposed to help.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. We’ve got almost 100% participation and it looks like it’s a tie. The leadership changed.

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Arab American Philanthropy

NonProfit Quarterly

CAAP’s recently released report, A Tapestry of Giving , provides a snapshot of the giving attitudes, habits, motivations, and priorities of the study’s participants. Three hundred Arab Americans participated in CAAP’s recent research. I’ve had a really lucky life in a lot of ways,” one participant said. “I