Volunteers and staff usually need warming so that they can effectively make a gift request. They need baby steps. We all need to understand what we are doing and why we are doing it. One step at a time. One win at a time. Building confidence and growing to even greater things. Here are some steps to warm up staff and volunteers to effectively secure gifts.
While we won’t solve all the problems volunteers face in 2014, there are things we can all do — for volunteers at our organization or if we want to volunteer — to make the experience more fulfilling for the volunteer and more beneficial for the organization. While there are many good resources available for learning the secrets of volunteer management, following are just a few that have been most elusive in my own experience.
Celebrate any opportunity that allows people to experience the joy and life-changing benefits of giving and to help meet vital needs! And let’s be sure to focus on nurturing giving as a way of life, not just an event!
Put yourself in the other person's shoes, and you may enhance your perception and improve your skills as a manager!
Give me a list of 20 things to do and I might shut down. Give me list of five things to do, with clear instructions and a timeline, and I can excel.
"It's a tight market for employers, and our survey tells us that only 33 percent of employers offer a formal training program for new hires," says Greg Albright, founder and chief communications officer at Production Solutions and PS Digital.
You may lose some staff due to proactive changes, but you must think about the institutional direction going forward.
Sadly, transitions in staff replacements in the nonprofit world typically do not lend themselves to smooth transitions of information.
On Sept. 4, some Today in Fundraising subscribers (and folks who have opted in to some of FS' other e-mail lists) received an e-mail from me with the subject line: "The most important link you'll ever click."
This is your chance! Anything and everything is on the table to ask in regard to charity watchdogs.
