Treating Volunteers Like Donors
Like many people in arts organizations, I get to wear many hats in my job. One of my favorites is that of volunteer coordinator. Each season, we rely on over 100 volunteers to help our small staff do big work. As I was gearing up for volunteer sign-ups and making some changes to the program, Vu Le’s July, 2015 blog post “Volunteers and the Bahn Mi of Social Justice” came through my inbox. In his …
There’s More Than One Way To Hack The Arts
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ArtsHacker currently includes a mix of original articles and aggregated posts (content that points out a useful resource elsewhere but ties it into arts management) but sometimes we run across items that would be useful to arts managers but only need a sentence or two description; and although a blog post that long is just silly, it’s an ideal length for Facebook and Twitter. To that end, we started posting these micro-ArtsHacks items of note …
Discovering The True Cost Of Programs
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For some time now the perception that a non-profit with a high overhead cost was inefficient has provided a disincentive for non-profit organizations to figure out the true cost of their programs. Recently non-profit evaluaters like GuideStar, Charity Navigator and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have been advocating for eliminating overhead ratio as a measure of effectiveness. The federal Office of Management and Budget recently implemented rules requiring governments at all levels to provide at least …
Take Advantage Of FREE Google Advertising Via Google Grants
You may already know this, but just in case you don’t, I have a great tip for you. Google gives away up to $10,000 per month in Google Advertising, for free, to qualified non-profits. If you aren’t taking advantage of this, you should! Go to google.com/grants, they have a video and a Non-Profit Guide that you can check out to learn more. First thing is to make sure you’re eligible; for the most part, you …
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…