As a leader of a non-profit organization, you will have many opportunities to utilize volunteer help. Not only do volunteers help an organization save money on paid staff, but they also become a vital part of the overall personality of the group. In order to retain your current volunteers and to recruit new ones to […]

In last week’s Resource Roundup: What’s Your Story? I featured World Vision as an example of a non profit that is always telling its story well. An email newsletter that I got from World Vision after publishing Friday’s post confirmed this once again. While they had already published a video and other news alerts about […]

Relating your nonprofit’s mission with story telling can be one of the most powerful things that you ever do (and continue to do) to impact funding for your cause. There are many ways to tell a story… in person, in writing such as in your newsletter and direct mail letters, and with multimedia like online […]

Today’s Appreciation Challenge is all about board members. I’ve been active on two different boards for several years now. Now in my role as president of one board, I’m especially interested in how to make the experience of serving on a board a positive one for all of the members. Blue Avacado has a great […]

As I was listening to Mike Robbins The Power of Appreciation audio CD recently, what stood out to me was the difference between true appreciation and just “saying thanks.” Appreciation is first a state of being, an “attitude of gratitude” and then secondly taking action. While thank-you gifts, plaques or public acknowledgements have their place, […]

What if each day you took the time to give appreciation to someone you work with, a donor to your cause or a friend or family member? Perhaps it is possible that something as simple as showing people that you appreciate them could make a big impact. Mike Robbins experienced this first hand and the […]

You know they say a picture is worth a thousand words…. how about pictures, video, words and music? Video has already exploded on the web and non profits are fast catching up. This roundup brings up some tips that you can use when considering getting into this medium, plus several examples of great cause related […]