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Why Leaders Struggle to Create Strong Chapters

Why do volunteer leaders struggle to create a strong chapter? Lazy Leader Guru Cynthia D’Amour  surveyed 650 volunteer leaders to learn their views about their leadership experiences and more. She found three major themes. 1. ‘No Time’ is the cover-all smoke screen. People don’t have time to join. Members don’t have time to volunteer. Volunteers […]

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Dr. Nancy D. O’Reilly Interviews Volunteer Expert Cynthia D’Amour

Learn from association expert Cynthia D’Amour how to succeed as a lazy leader. Invite others in Make it fun Accept new ideas Don’t try to do it all yourself Dump the martyr tiara Toot horn for others N: We are fortunate indeed when our careers intertwine with our passion and our purpose and our need

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How Social Media Are Affecting Social-Profit Organizations

Social-profit organizations always operate with small staffs and people who can feel maxed out. Social media opportunities today stretch staff resources to the breaking point and have created three major problems. This excellent article explores three negative consequences and what to do about them. The 24/7 news cycle creates compassion fatigue. People feel overloaded with

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Working Relationships: How To Manage Cliques

How do I keep cliques from damaging my group? You know the bad things about cliques. Workplace expert and blogger Marlene Chism tells us that Cliques can represent exclusion Cliques contribute to jealousy Cliques create a tribal mentality or blind spots But despite the problems they can create for your fundraising, volunteer, community, school or

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Tips for Fundraising Success: 11 Ways to Make the Money Work

Fundraising is essential to success for social-profit groups, and it takes a lot of work to achieve success. Use these 11 tips to increase your bottom line while avoiding frustration in your volunteers. 1) Handling the money It’s like banking. Split responsibility for money handling between two people who are not related. Always employ check

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FLiP’s Evening in Paris Raises Over $26,000

In its first annual Evening in Paris event, Female Leaders in Philanthropy netted more than $26,000 to fund the group’s three service projects in Springfield, Missouri. FLiP is a United Way Women’s Initiative. The funds will go to support: Formally Yours, which provides prom dresses for needy teens (discontinued program) Suit Yourself Boutique, which outfits

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Will You Rock Recruitment in Your Fall Meetings?

Social-profit organization guru Cynthia D’Amour offers specific tips for recruiting new members, which is essential if you want to boost volunteers and fundraising power. In a recent podcast she urges us to have EAGER Fall Meetings. 1. Everyone in the group buys into the idea of growth. 2. All are inviting guests to your meetings.

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Women who lean back before offering their opinions have most success

Speaking of helping women advance in the world of science and technology, blogger Mary Hodder offers a fascinating discussion of male-female differences and how they play out in the workplace. Men as risk takers, women as the ones who think ahead to prevent problems they KNOW they will be left to clean up……..hmmmm, that sounds

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10 Most Powerful Women at the United Nations

These ten amazing women have all been appointed to their United Nations’ posts since 2006. They’re working on the status of women, peace building, management of the whole operation, legal counsel, children’s welfare, and more. Never heard of them?  Get ready — you will! Things really are getting better (of course there’s still a long

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Enough With Hating Other Women

Have you ever noticed how hard women are on other women? They don’t only dis other women in high school or at cocktail parties. Non-feminists hate feminists; some women columnists hate women’s websites. Forbes’ blogger Meghan Casserly writes: “It simply doesn’t sit well with me. “Yes, yes, I get it: it’s a shame that “women’s”

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