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Better Impact Blog

The world of the nonprofit sector is constantly changing. Better Impact presents some thought leadership on a variety of topics in volunteer management and donor relations, and invites you to be a part of the conversation.

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Volunteer Leadership (3)

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Bringing Ethical Values to Life as a Volunteer Manager

As leaders of volunteers, we encounter ethical questions regularly. The Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration (CCVA), which...

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Top Certifications & Certificates for Volunteer Management Professionals

Introduction In today's rapidly evolving world, volunteer engagement has become more critical than ever. Nonprofits and organizations rely on...

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BETTER IMPACT BOOK BITES: I Said What I Said: An Anthology of Black Women in Nonprofit

This Month's Selection I Said What I Said: An Anthology of Black Women in Nonprofit Authored by: Errika Y. Flood-Moultrie The eleventh in a series of...

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Volunteer statistical fun facts from around the world

Although most of the research published does not lend itself to country-to-country comparisons, here's a compilation of stats from a variety of...

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Donor Analytics: 3 Ways to Leverage Data at Your Nonprofit

If your nonprofit is like most, you collect and store a lot of data. Data provides a foundation for many of your day-to-day activities, from...

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Mythbusting 101: Toppling the Top 5 Volunteer Engagement Myths

Around the globe, volunteers help organizations achieve their mission. And yet, volunteer engagement is often complicated by widely held myths. As...

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Finding and Using Data That Matters – 6 Things to Think About

Search any data related posting and you’ll soon be up to your eyeballs in reports on the promise of the new data era, techniques to help build a...

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Monkeys in a cage as a metaphor for how we can be programmed to accept the unnatural

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A Cage Full of Monkeys

One of the many things I’ve enjoyed when training a new member on our Volunteer Impact software is the way some of them look at a new system...

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coronavirus impacting the economy

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Volunteer management in a post-pandemic world

As we all know, the dynamics and parameters of what we consider normal have drastically changed with COVID-19. After more than a year battling this...

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New perspectives in data collection and retention

When was the last time you did an inventory of what data you collect about your volunteers and/or donors, how you use it, how you store it and when...

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