Connect4Good Articles and Tips

Women provide the lifeblood for volunteer organizations, for philanthropy, for businesses, and for their families!

Women have told us they face challenges in women leadership, fundraiser events and fundraising, working with volunteers and committees, finding and becoming a mentor, empowering women, delegating responsibilities, working with boards and more.

They want to have mentors and be mentors. Here is an index to articles and tips on those topics from Dr. Nancy and other smart, amazing women. Enjoy!

Challenges

• Don’t meet just to meet – Dr. Nancy explains
• Help Women Wish They Had - Results of Social Profit Survey
• Take Care of Yourself As Well As Others – Get Back While You Give Back
• Toledo Women’s Initiative Membership Survey Report

Fundraising

• FLiP Raises Over $26,000
• 11 Ways to Make Your Group’s Money Work
• Overcome Fears of Asking – Expert Reveals Secrets
• Fundraising a Challenge? - 15 Ways to Prepare for Success
• Publicity is Crucial - Proven Ways to Spread the Word
• 10 Essential Approaches - Elements of Every Successful Fundraiser
• It’s About Your People – 9 Tips for Fundraising Success

Mentoring

• Connect with other women’s groups to share
• Beginning a Mentoring Program - Plans from one Women’s Initiative
• Mentor to Help Yourself and Others - 7 Keys for Mentoring Women and Girls
• Change Messages to Girls - And You’ll Change the World
• Guide to forms to help organize a mentoring program
• Letter to Mentors after First Training Session
• Sample Agenda for a First Mentoring Program

Purpose & Passion

• Who are the 10 most powerful women in the United Nations?
• Hear About Other People’s Epiphanies - Listen
• One Woman’s Fight for Human Rights – Listen

Recruitment

• How to Recruit More Members

Social Media and Social Profit

• How social media affect not-for-profits
• Term “Social Profit” more accurate than Nonprofit

Victims

• Remembering 9/11 – Dr. Nancy’s remarks

Volunteers

• How to Keep Cliques from Damaging Your Group
• How to Increase Volunteers – Expert tells how
• Building a Strong Volunteer Organization – Three Themes
• Inspiring Your Volunteers – 5 Smart Ways To Do It
• Nip Resentment in the Bud – Manage Without Favoritism
• Easy Online Management Tool – Smart Tools for Considerate Communication
• Volunteers Need Appreciation – 5 Ways to Say Thanks
• Don’t Abuse Your Volunteers – Use Them Well Instead

Website Effectiveness

• A Great Website – Welcomes Volunteer Help
• Retaining Loyal Volunteers – Your Website Can help

 Women Who Aren’t Kids

• She started linking women her own age and look what happened!

Women’s Leadership Councils

• WLC New member packet
• WLC Welcome letter
• WLC Promotional Brochure
• Guide to forms to help organize a mentoring program
• Letter to Mentors after First Training Session
• Sample Agenda for a First Mentoring Program