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Compliance: Do We Really Need to Bring Our Volunteers to Volun"tears"?

Mariner

May 2, 2013. We remind them by email - have deadlines posted everywhere and on each document or online document to no avail. We remind them by email - have deadlines posted everywhere and on each document or online document to no avail. We even get our Regional governors to remind them. Anyone have any ideas?

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Study: Nonprofit Investment Returns Lagged Market Benchmarks in 2013

Associations Now

Any way you sliced it in 2013, nonprofits would likely have been better off sticking with a 60/40 mix of traditional stocks and bonds,” according to an executive summary of the results. The key is documentation of the process they undertook to arrive at whatever decision they make,” he said. percent to 13.5

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Five Leadership Problems That Brought on the FIFA Disaster

Associations Now

With nine FIFA executives indicted on a wide array of corruption charges, the organization that governs international soccer and manages the World Cup has become a poster child for leadership gone wrong. Here are five of the most common leadership problems cited by critics. ” A 2013 meeting at FIFA’s headquarters.

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Why We Love Associations: 10 Top Stories From the Associations Now Archives

Associations Now

This 2013 blog post from meetings blogger Samantha Whitehorne highlighted a number of industry predictions from the International Association of Exhibitions and Events. The Leadership Elements That Made Nelson Mandela an Icon. (iStock/Thinkstock). 5 Future Trends Affecting the Events Industry. How correct were they? iStock/Thinkstock).

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Truths about volunteering #30

Mariner

January 31, 2013. Reminded me of an article in ASAE's Associations Now "Starting From Scratch: When a Long-time Volunteer Quits" (may be restricted access to document) that highlighted what can happen when the right volunteer management isn't in practice! This past year two of our best volunteers quit, because of a third.

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Lean Methodology: Before and After

Association Success

I first read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries in 2013. In these conversations, some people indicated they would prefer to use a timesheet, and this anecdotal evidence fell into the hands of leadership. Once the leadership wants to pursue an idea it can be hard to push them into experimental mode instead of execution.

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Planning Your Nonprofit’s Capital Campaign: 4 Do's & Don'ts

Achieve

You’ll also develop guiding documents and resources like your case for support and preliminary gift range chart. Seek input on your preliminary campaign plans from leadership, discuss the purpose of your campaign, and more. She became a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) in 2004 and received the ACFRE in 2013.

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