“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,”
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.
This article by Matthew Lynch in Education Week, January 8, 2014 speaks to the four ways that technology has changed K-12 education.
They are 1) collaboration 2) research online 3) remote learning and 4) teacher prep. Seems that with a few wording changes, the same could be said about digital technology's impact on the workforce. Is the workforce ready?
Great resource by Idealware for nonprofits to use to use social media well for different purposes such as events, outreach, volunteer recruitment, etc.
Oddly, professional development or learning by staff/volunteers/across organizational boundaries is not mentioned. Wonder if we should reach out to Idealware's authors to discuss adding another section to guide next year?
the first thing 70 percent of people do when looking for local businesses is fire up their browsers and head online to do a search.
every single day, more and more of the world is online, and as that trend continues the internet is becoming our de facto first choice of where to go to find things, whether that means the closest deli to our apartment, a quality used car, or someone to fill the position that just opened up at our company.
blog post by Juliana Weiss-Roessler on why online resumes are critical to have these days, February 15, 2013.
She recommends using LinkedIn, online resume builder, and your own website.
from Te@chthought.com: Terry Hick updated the 2013 version of this infographic on 5/21/15. Mirrors Seek, sense, share and the digital literacies in Net Smart. Good site for teaching and learning, although k - 12 focused but relevant to most teaching, I think.
This development has been dubbed “The Open Talent Economy” in Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends 2013 study: the evolving workforce is a mixture of full-time employees, contractors, freelancers and, increasingly, workers with no formal ties to an enterprise.
But one area people haven’t thought much about is the aging of the workforce. As people live longer, they will still be vigorous and want to have income, but they might want to change the nature of their status within the workforce.”
She points to a Boston company that provides its clients with C-level executives who take on limited-run consulting engagements. This is the type of high-level “temporary worker” that is outside the bounds of traditional workforce planning—and is usually not captured by traditional technology.
Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States is the
tenth annual report on the state of online learning in U.S. higher education. The
survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research
Group. Data collection is conducted in partnership with the College Board.
This year's study, like those for the previous nine years, tracks the opinions of
chief academic officers and is aimed at answering fundamental questions about
the nature and extent of online education. Based on responses from more than
2,800 colleges and universities,
article in Economix by Catherine Rampell, March 8, 2013 on the rise of part-time work.
Excerpt:
We are nowhere near recovering the jobs lost in the recession, and the track record looks even worse when you consider that so many of the jobs lost were full time, whereas so many of those gained have been part time.
Compared with December 2007, when the recession officially began, there are 5.8 million fewer Americans working full time. In that same period, there has been an increase of 2.8 million working part time. Part-time workers - defined as people who usually work fewer than 35 hours a week - are still a minority of the work force, but their share is growing.
Another blog from workintelligent.ly. 3 simple signs your company is not understanding today's technology - most of which point to not trying to control what is used and how it is used, sharing tech info, knowledge and skills, and using the expertise of everyone that uses technology. A unnamed dig at Microsoft and Explorer as an example of what not to do.
A good model for us to think about: 3 signs your organization doesn't understand networked learning and/or PD could be a blog or promotional outreach for us.
A blog from Workintelligent.ly about how intranet, based on social media concepts but for working within a company, could supplant email. I found the comments very interesting - issues such as most projects are by independent contractors who don't benefit from intranets, etc.
Lorenzo Grandi is founder of Startupbootcamp Amerstam. He outlines what makes a successful crowdfunding campaign. Ask: what do you or can you offer? Who is your competition? What has worked well for them? Feature a video - more likely to get funded if you have one.
Although this is geared toward business, it has a lot of good tips and links to other blogs and sites (including Kickstarter and their help area), and is easy to understand and practical.
Will websites die in the next 10 years? No, websites are not at risk of being phased out, but of course they will evolve, function, and look different than they do today. Social media platforms and mobile will become even more prevalent (including ones that we don’t even know about yet) and nonprofit leaders must carve out time to understand these trends and act now to remain relevant with their base of supporters.
Make your website, signup forms, and donation forms mobile responsive.
Update Your Nonprofit’s Facebook page a few times a day.
Build up your nonprofit’s leadership influence online.
The president of your organization may have clout in offline and influential circles including the White House, but online is an entirely different ball game. As more news breaks online, often on Twitter, you want your leadership to be the go-to source for reporters. Guess what? Reporters look for experts on Twitter. If your leadership has no active social media presence, reporters who need facts and interviews ASAP will quickly overlook your senior leadership. I've seen this happen many times.
Test new platforms.
If your nonprofit hasn’t tested Medium, try it. It’s a strong community of thought leaders who write and share different perspectives from the arts to climate change.
Another app worth testing is Periscope, acquired by Twitter.