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10/17/2011

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Washington DC Nonprofit CPA

Your suggestions here are excellent. I especially like how you suggest leveraging paid staff to help monitor and lead volunteer groups. Having clients that are nonprofits and being a volunteer in many in the past I think such a set up would eliminate some issues with "starting and stopping".

Additionally, the one page idea that matches volunteer skill sets with projects is a great one. I know how hard it can be for both the organization and the volunteer when there is a mismatch. Everyone seems to be let down!!!

Tobi@tobijohnson.com

Yes, it's a bit of a paradigm shift. Usually, we think of volunteers as "filling in" for jobs paid staff can't get to. What if we flipped the scenario? What if volunteers were the leaders and paid staff supplemented their work, as needed?

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