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		<title>Book Excerpt: Getting Middle Management On Board</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/03/02/book-excerpt-getting-middle-management-on-board/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/03/02/book-excerpt-getting-middle-management-on-board/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[From the Top Down]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third and fully revised edition of From the Top Down: The Executive Role in Successful Volunteer Involvement has just been sent to the printer! It&#8217;ll be available for sale in March. Until then, here&#8217;s another excerpt to whet your interest. It introduces an idea new to the 3rd edition: for your volunteer program to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteering and Social Change</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/02/16/volunteering-and-social-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/02/16/volunteering-and-social-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it&#8217;s done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.
- Susan J. Ellis
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Dating Meets Volunteer Recruitment!</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/01/25/speed-dating-meets-volunteer-recruitment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/01/25/speed-dating-meets-volunteer-recruitment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recruitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[volunteer centers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s an idea – why not have a volunteer recruiting event for singles on Valentine’s Day? It’s fun, unique, and – trust me – it’ll be more interesting than what most of us singletons end up doing on February 14th. Check out this excerpt from A Toolkit for Volunteer Speed Matching to spur your thinking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evaluating the Success of your Day of Service</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/01/18/evaluating-days-of-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/01/18/evaluating-days-of-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single days of service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (MLK Day) is the most widely known and supported single day of service in the US. I’m sure many of your organizations are hosting a group of volunteers today.
“Planning and Executing Successful Large-Scale Days of Service,” training material developed by HandsOn  Network, is featured in the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Put Social Networking to Work for Your Volunteer Program</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/01/05/put-social-networking-to-work-for-your-volunteer-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2010/01/05/put-social-networking-to-work-for-your-volunteer-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-Volunteerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joshua Fixler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trends]]></category>

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Are you looking for ways to re-energize your recruitment and retention efforts? Our online journal, e-Volunteerism, has recently published two really interesting articles on the possibilities that social networking holds for volunteer engagement.
The first article is “Using Social Media in Your Volunteer Engagement Strategy” by Joshua Fixler. This Training Design article will help you and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers as Donors (plus Peek at New &#8220;From the Top Down&#8221;)</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/12/08/volunteers-as-donors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/12/08/volunteers-as-donors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Excerpts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Executive Role]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sneak Peek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan J. Ellis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Volunteers Donate, On Average, 10 Times More Money than Non-Volunteers.” That’s a headline sure to get the attention of anyone in the not-for-profit world. It’s just one of the important findings in a recent study released on December 3 by the Fidelity® Charitable Gift Fund and VolunteerMatch.  The findings support Energize’s long-held stance that volunteer-involving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author Interview &#8211; John L. Lipp</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/11/19/author-interview-john-l-lipp/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/11/19/author-interview-john-l-lipp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask-an-Author]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you believe it &#8211; volunteer management now has its own Idiot&#8217;s Guide book! Working with the standard template, author John L. Lipp  crammed a lot of very useful information into 304 pages, all in bite-sized chunks.  Read on for our interview with John and a taste of the great information you&#8217;ll get from The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask-an-Author: Risk Management and Volunteer Drivers</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/11/11/ask-an-author-risk-management-and-volunteer-drivers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/11/11/ask-an-author-risk-management-and-volunteer-drivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linda Graff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supervision]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here’s  the third  in a series of questions submitted by our readers and answered by volunteerism and risk management expert Linda Graff (read previous posts, on Risk Management and the Swine Flu and policies on reference checks).
The Question: I presently have a volunteer driver who has just come back from leave for medical conditions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask-an-Author: Policies on Reference Checks</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/10/14/ask-an-author-policies-on-reference-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/10/14/ask-an-author-policies-on-reference-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Linda Graff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[policies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s  the second  in a series of questions submitted by our readers and answered by volunteerism and risk management expert Linda Graff (read the first post, on Risk Management and the Swine Flu, here).
The Question:
I am continually updating our volunteer policies. I have been researching the pros and cons of doing written reference checks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview &#8211; Volunteering and Employability</title>
		<link>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/09/24/interview-volunteering-and-employability/</link>
		<comments>http://www.energizeinc.com/blog/2009/09/24/interview-volunteering-and-employability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inclusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supervision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interview with Nick Ockenden, Head of Research at the Institute for Volunteering Research  in the UK, about IVR&#8217;s recent report on volunteering and employability.  You can find more information about the research and read the final report at the IVR website.  Many thanks to Nick for taking the time to talk to me [...]]]></description>
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