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[GUEST BLOG] If Everyone Goes Left, Go Right

GrowthZone

The first is the Vail Valley Partnership, the chamber representing Vail Valley in Colorado. The executives, who these large employers recruited at great expense, stayed for a little while but then went somewhere else where the executive and the spouse could find good jobs in their fields. They have a Trailing Spouse program.

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3 Tips for Staying Organized While Planning Your Auction

Achieve

Volunteer Manager: This team member recruits volunteers, trains them, and communicates with them during the event. This could involve email, direct mail, video, social media, and more. In 2004 he founded the Prader-Willi Syndrome Association of Colorado where he still resides as board chair. About the Author. Jeff Porter.

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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

Beth Kanter

What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? In Kansas, for example, the Wichita Community Foundation reached out to a local tech alliance to help with social media updates. How can you encourage donor-advised fundholders to participate? And how do you handle a tech glitch —or even a systems crash?

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