Category Archives: Generations
Youth Leadership, Empowerment, and Making a Difference
By Carl Lakari I have always thought volunteering is essentially the giving (of our energy) to help others. It’s service. Sounds simple, but it’s not. I am challenged by years of judgments and carried perspectives – personal and cultural. “Rugged … Continue reading
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Nonprofit Communication in the Digital Age: Changing Times, (mostly) Same Old Criteria
By Sarah Ryan, Ph.D. If your nonprofit doesn’t have a second life presence, are you doing a disservice to your clients? Probably not. If you don’t provide economic data on your website, are you failing your donors? Maybe so. These … Continue reading
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(Mis) Understanding Adult Learning
By Elizabeth Cole Two weeks ago I replaced my grandfather’s outdated internet browser with one that was more current and theoretically easier to use. After teaching him the basics, I started to show him some of the more advanced tools … Continue reading
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Recruiting Student Volunteers
By Elizabeth Cole It’s late August. The sounds of crickets, katydids, and back-to-school commercials fill the night air. But before you start mourning the loss of yet another summer, remember that the change in seasons isn’t all bad for volunteer … Continue reading
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Successful Volunteer Management is Key
By Suzanne Gastaldo Successful management of volunteers is key to securing funding. What better way to justify your bottom line. We employ a mere 2.5 full-time positions, but oversee 140 volunteers who successfully implement our mission, fundraise, strategize and direct … Continue reading
Youth/Adult Partnership: An Exploration
By Deb Bicknell Youth and adults working together to make positive change in the world; a beautiful vision, a creative and powerful solution to solving complex problems, a worthy endeavor and not always as easy as it sounds. Being able … Continue reading
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Sharing Power- PART I
By Deb Bicknell At the Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) we have a group of young people who help to plan all aspects of our events, a youth planning team, or YPT, as we fondly call it. The group has … Continue reading
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The Generational Rainbow-How Using The Entire Spectrum Can Help Our Programs Succeed
By Margaret E. Puckett All the buzz today seems to revolve around the new emerging demographics of the volunteer workforce and how volunteer programs must change the way they use these volunteers to remain viable. It’s one of the hottest … Continue reading
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Prepare for “New” Volunteers in Challenging Times
By Sharon Tewksbury-Bloom Volunteering has made it into the news a lot recently for a couple of different reasons. First, the recession is increasing the ranks of the unemployed as well as increasing the demands on voluntary organizations. Second, President … Continue reading
Volunteer While You Wait for the Bus
Information Age Volunteerism – Open Sourced! Crowdsourced! By Ben Rigby, www.techpresident.com Click here to read a very interesting blog about volunteerism in the age of facebook, flicker and the like.
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