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Don't Forget Volunteers as Part of the Solution to 2017 Nonprofit Challenges | Energize... - 0 views

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volunteers Energize NonProfitTimes Ellis womenslearningstudio

shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • “Staffing, workflow, finance and fundraising will be the trends to watch in nonprofit operations during 2017 when it comes to charities and associations.”
  • “The Limitations of Seeing Volunteers Only as Unpaid Staff,”
  • volunteers are seen as ancillary, not central.
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  • direct invitation, not a Facebook post.)
  • clustering” – banding together to share resources or determining specialties.
  • Skilled volunteers can be integral to these developments, both to guide the learning management systems necessary and to present a wide array of professional development and public education programs.
  • support prevention rather than “bandages.” Point funders to volunteer work that brings about change and the finances needed to grow that work.  
  • screen applicants with experience solely in the corporate world for whether or not they also have a history of charitable giving and volunteering?
  • NPTimes foresees a surge in new training programs and certification opportunities, as well as nonprofits moving towards offering education to the general public to generate revenue.
  • Separate tasks that can legitimately be delegated to competent volunteers as their only role
  • Volunteers, however, can be advocates. They can speak out and be heard in more effective ways because (most of the time) they do not personally benefit from the outcome.
  • Marching and public protest are core activist tactics. But, the true potential for volunteerism is that many people are looking for how they can have a voice and affect decisions to come.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 06 Feb 17
     
    blog post by Susan J. Ellis, Energize, February 2017, great post for helping volunteers thrive in moving org mission
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Energize Turns 40! | Energize: Volunteer Management Resources for Directors of Volunteers - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 Mar 17
     
    Ellis' 40th anniversary reflects on challenges and opportunities volunteer management
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Online Communities Depend on Online Volunteers - NTEN - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17 - No Cached
  • “online communities” – the thousands of discussion forums allowing like-minded people to find one another, keep in touch, and share information. Most often these online communities are started by one or two highly motivated and unpaid individuals (aided by the amazing availability of free platforms to host such groups), and participation by all subscribers is intentional and voluntary. They operate on the principle of exchange, since if everyone lurks and never posts, no helpful ideas can emerge.
  • I asked them about how they worked with online volunteers and at first they said they didn’t have any.  Naturally, I soon changed their perception. In fact, NTEN depends on the freely donated time and skills of its involved members.
  • Why is it important to recognize this quasi-invisible workforce? Because seeing and valuing the volunteer nature of this service will let you appreciate and strengthen it. Further, it’s possible to apply the principles of volunteer management to make such volunteer participation easier and more productive. For example:
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  • Recruit More Volunteers
  • Give Volunteers the Information and Tools They Need
  • Monitor Work
  • Say Thanks Often and Sincerely
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 14 Apr 17
     
    article by Susan Ellis on virtual volunteering, 2014. Emphasizes that nonprofits do not recognize that they have virtual volunteers writing blog posts, maintaining websites, and doing many other tasks at a distance.
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Early MOOC Takes A Different Path - Education - Online Learning - - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 29 May 13
     
    ALISON MOOC--"With more than 1.2 million unique visitors per month and 250,000 graduates worldwide, Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online (ALISON), founded in 2007, is considered by some the first massive online open course (MOOC). " blog by Ellis Booker, Information Week Education, Excerpt: "Our focus is workplace skills," company CEO Mike Feerick told InformationWeek in a phone interview. Indeed, ALISON started with two globally in-demand skills: English and IT literacy, the latter in the form of ABC IT, a 15- to 20-hour training suite that remains the site's most popular course." Excerpt: "Employers don't care where you found those skills or how much you paid for them," he insists. Rather, employers want one thing: Verified competency. One service ALISON offers is tests for prospective hires that employers can administer to check the competence of job applicants who come with ALISON certificates. For a small fee, students can purchase an ALISON certificate after successfully completing a course, as a PDF, paper parchment or framed parchment."
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National - Minnesota Association for Volunteer Administration - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 03 Mar 17
     
    national conference of volunteer leaders promoted by Susan Ellis
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Understand Content Curation by (Dr. Gideon Burton) | wealthmovers.com - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 18 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • The value is in the opportunity we create for others to discover, to get a better hint or a better understanding, of what we have collected and sorted.
  • Content curation enhances who we are because it helps us Understand and Navigate the world we live in through someone else eyes and experience.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 18 Sep 15
     
    content curation by Mike Ellis; features a video of Dr. Gideon Burton
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