My love of nonprofits started in my teens when I volunteered to work at a summer camp for intellectually disabled children. Since then, I’ve served a variety of nonprofit organizations in a range of roles that include frontline volunteer, committee member, advisory member, board member, board chair, and in a professional capacity as a marketing & organizational advisor.
Here’s what I’ve learned based on my personal and professional experience:
1. Mission matters – it provides organizational focus and intention. It also brings together the people who share a passion for the mission and want to do something about it.
2. The people behind the mission also matter – the employees and volunteers who carry out the mission through their dedication and commitment.
3. People’s passion for the mission should not be taken for granted – employees’ and volunteers’ passion for the mission does not guarantee their continued commitment to an organization.
These valuable insights are the basis for my new book that I’m excited to introduce here. I wrote Share of Mind, Share of Heart – Marketing Tools of Engagement for Nonprofits to help nonprofit leaders, executives and managers better engage the employees and volunteers who carry out their organization’s mission.
My book will be published shortly. In the meantime, I’ll share more about nonprofit engagement and my new book in the next two posts.
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Looking forward to these posts!