Strategic Volunteering: Ingredient #

6. To strengthen existing friendships

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“Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.” -Anonymous

When you help with a fundraiser, the first resource you are likely to tap is your personal network, and that is usually your friends and family. I now live in Boston area, [...]

Strategic Volunteering: Ingredient #3

3# To help move yourself forward after a mistake
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Being human means we will all make mistakes. The question is, how will you learn from your past mistakes and move forward quickly in a positive direction after you make one? When I started my first company Jobs In Nonprofits, I had the [...]

Strategic Volunteering: Career Tip #13

Career Tip #13 – Confidence booster

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To build your confidence, get engaged in (or lead) a pro-bono project in a type of work that you have done before. If you have had experience with preparing tax returns for others, you might offer to teach a tax prep course at one of the local workforce [...]

Strategic Volunteering: Ingredient #18

18. To improve your health

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Research has demonstrated that stressful living causes excess weight gain and has other adverse effects on your health. By building your self-esteem, your confidence, your love, and your joy, you will discover how to live a less stressful life and overcome unhealthy habits. We have all heard that [...]

Strategic Voluteering: 50 Ingredients to Transform Your Life and Career

7. To meet a business associate

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Where did you make your last important business connection? Did you immediately have a sense of trust for that person and his business? The more that business associates trust one another, the better collaboration can take place. I met Paul Hutchinson of Hutchinson Consulting, who [...]

Strategic Volunteer Project with The Colored Pencil Project and the Social Impact Chef

A tip from the social impact chef!

Inspiration Poem

Inspiration

It is something or someone that brings you heart felt elation?

Do we lack it in this nation?

Is it true human excellence?

Is it earth shattering joy?

Is it your favorite toy?

Inspiration

How does it feel deep in your heart?

It certainly does not feel like a fart?

Is it a form of love from one person to another?

Can it [...]

How to accelerate your nonprofit career

Mark McCurdy runs the www.thenonprofitcareercoach.org.

Kerry Connor is the National Recruitment Director for Jumpstart, a national non-profit organization that focuses on early intervention for at risk preschoolers.  They place older adults to work one on one with at risk preschoolers.

Mark volunteered at Read for the Record, a national campaign to raise awareness around the country for [...]

Embrace life today!

Embrace life! Great cause marketing ad. Can your nonprofit learn from this?

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