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Category Archives: Volunteers
A Healthy Calendar for 2009
With the plethora of health association and advocacy group awareness months, weeks and days to come in 2009, the clever researchers at The Washington Post’s Health Section have showcased a collection of well over 200 observances from January to December. … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Staff Leadership, Volunteers
Tagged advocacy, National Health Information Center, partnership, sponsorship, Washington Post
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Get 'Em in Gear
Are non-profit leaders taking volunteers for granted? The story has it that non-profit executives have only three responsibilities: 1) the care of the board; 2) the feeding of the board; and 3) the care and feeding of the board. While … Continue reading
In An Unsettled Economy
While many of us have been through economic downturns, most of us have never been through an economic downturn quite like this one. Yet even in severe business circumstances there are opportunities to sustain our core business and strengthen the … Continue reading
No Passion. No Progress.
Passion makes progress possible. Employee passion. Member passion. Volunteer passion. A leader’s passion for their teams and for excellence in everything the organization does. If as leaders we understand the value of engagement what explains so many employees being disengaged from … Continue reading
When The Levees Broke…Circa August 2005
I watched Spike Lee’s HBO documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts again for about the nine hundredth time. The stories are powerfully haunting and heartbreaking still. Hurricane Katrina laid bare the enormous cost and curse of poor leadership. The lessons about democracy … Continue reading
Letting User Contribution Systems Build Your Business
If you only find time to read one business article this month, you may want to make it Scott Cook’s piece in the Harvard Business Review (October 2008) The Contribution Revolution – Letting Volunteers Build Your Business. Cook, a co-founder of Intuit … Continue reading
Posted in Executive Development, Leadership, Membership, Volunteers
Tagged HBR, Leadership, Membership, Volunteers
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