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2011

 

February: Fund-raising & Volunteers, Vision & Mission, People Power in Egypt, e-News Survey Results

 

January: Look back, leap forward- a review of our most popular articles in 2010

 

2010

 

December: The truth about success, Volunteer rights, Valuing volunteers

 

November:Effective screening, Where is your data?, What are your volunteers saying online?

 

October: Delivering effective services, Burning out your people, Police volunteers

 

September: 21 volunteer appreciation ideas, Writing thank you letters, World Giving Report

 

August Orientation, Email, Bullying, National Volunteer Strategy

 

July Texting & Driving//Onthe Job Safety/Child Protection

 

June Online Volunteer Recruitment/Paying Board Members/How to not attract supporters

 

May Managing time and money: How Safe are your funds/Tyre Kicking Volunteers/Bequests Up

 

April Volunteers may wreck your work, Mission creep, Avoiding learned dependency

 

March Access for disabled vols, Policies and procedures, 10 steps to policy creation

 

February The Mentoring Edition

 

January :Volunteering resolutions, Board performance reviews, Fairtrade, Company news

 

 

2009

 

December: Tech Free; Sharing Volunteer Resources; Gen X Checks out

 

November: NZ Giving, Intl Vounteerl Managers Day, IParticipate

 

October: Positive words add up; People First social media workshops; Volunteer police

 

September: Volunteering to save vision, Tweeting for charity, Appreciating volunteer value

 

August Nurse Maude, Maverick Board Members, Global Poverty

 

July What Volunteers Need, Facebook & NFPs, What families needs

 

June Swine Flu Precautions, Volunteer Manager Assocns, Equal Society

 

May Inspiring Volunteers, Donors and Organisations

 

April Chilling assessment of US not for profits/ change + volunteers/ Future of Volunteering.

 

March Instant baby-boomer volunteers!/Eight funding ideas/The recession & NFP revenue

 

February Recession Buster Issue!: Aussie Fires Tragedy/Tighten Your Belt

 

January :Not for Profit sector/ Online social networks/ Leadership by degrees/ Focusing on your volunteers

 

2008

 

November 2008: War/ Volunteering not always healthy?/ End of Non Profits/Choose Your Future

 

September 2008: Control /Voluntourism/ Mission Statements/ Online communities

 

July 2008: Quality of Life/ Gen Y/ Volunteer Program Assessments/ Global Volunteer Management Survey

 

May 2008: Scary Soup/ Volunteering for love/ Dealing with charity fraud/ Growing a Green Organisation

 

February 2008: False Economy/ How nonprofit managers rate/ Using email wisely/ Who is my neighbour?

 

 

 

 

 

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Thank you for providing this valuable resource at no cost, so I didn't need to spend time justifying it to my organization

This job can be rather lonely in the way of self and organisational development. It keeps me in touch with other ideas etc.


Acknowledgement, affirmation, recognition & inspiration. Always good to receive these via your E News. One gets the sense of no being 'on our own.' Others are experiencing similar things


Ongoing and refreshing ideas are always useful. For small volunteer non profit organisations knowing that certainin information is available on and email or the website is reassuring.


Thanks for your e news, so good, so relevant, so timely.


It is not always easy to maintain and keep up to date with volunteering and all the surrounding issues. We understand the need to keep volunteers interested, supported and motivated, and you understand the need to keep the coordinators & managers interested, supported and motivated but also advise on legal requirements etc..

Some weeks, I read from "cover to cover", other weeks, I read the highlightsd and if they are appealing to me, I will click on the link and read further.


I enjoy reading your newsletter


Keep up the GREAT work! I think you have a great company


Keep up the good work. Even if we don't always respond or interact, we are watching, reading and appreciating the newsletter.


I am very pleased to receive this and would be dismayed if it was to cease

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We love the archive. A month or so ago, a volunteer was working on a project of developing/updating policies at an agency. Your article on policies and procedures was excellent - theoretical framework, practical advice, short and succinct. I enjoy the thoughts and insights. We tend to hear the same things again and again in this sector, so new ideas and connections are always stimulating.

Very enjoyable and imformative. A very good use of my time.


Keep up the GREAT work!
I enjoy reading PFTS news for the upbeat, topical information and links I appreciate the big picture (social justice) approach over narrow sector view


I have enjoyed receiving this publication, always informative, often thought-provoking and definitely engaging.
keep it up and post news letter monthly.


Keep up the newsletters coming. Always look forward to reading them.

I like the newsletter Martin and crew, short and informative.


Love the E-News and always pass on any relevant topics to others within our organisation.


I have found there have been some great articles in your newsletter that has given me "food for thought" but also made me aware of issues that we clearly need to do something about. Having attended your Social media workshops it has also opened my eyes to the pitfalls and potentials that could be available to our organisation.


the overseas links & brief information about about whats happening in the world


I like your encouragement, even to the little agencies.


Appreciate the newsletter, gives me good insight to things happening in other areas, especially U.S.A as I live/work in Australia