[lgkk]

It’s in the name. Non profit.

Sorry but let’s be real they are using other people’s money to do stuff.

When there is no tangible incentive (helping other people is noble but isn’t an incentive at greater than an individual level - it is an emotional response) it’s impossible to be effective.

I think you should recommend that you should hire people. Even one or two hired people with a bonus incentive will be far more effective. That’s why most successful big “volunteer” organizations have paid employees who give a shit and rally the free volunteers. Their job depends on them making other people motivated to do the job.

If it’s not possible then I’d suggest you try other ways to help.

I am a volunteer myself. I only volunteer at places where I know they’re staffed and not wasting money.

My time is limited. I’m not going to waste it being triggered by incompetence.

[majormajor]

> I think you should recommend that you should hire people. Even one or two hired people with a bonus incentive will be far more effective. That’s why most successful big “volunteer” organizations have paid employees who give a shit and rally the free volunteers. Their job depends on them making other people motivated to do the job.

Suggesting the OP hire people to "rally the free volunteers" instead of developing the skills to do it themselves certainly shows where the mindset needed for success in the corporate world can run into issues in the resource-constrained broke, small non-profit world.

[lgkk]

Well I didn’t want to explicitly insinuate that it seems he didn’t have those. And it’s better to put someone with experience in place imo. Again this is only if you really care which he seems to do since he asked.

[stonogo]

That "using other people's money to do stuff" is a hell of a comment, in this particular venue.

Meanwhile, it's eminently possible to be effective without "tangible incentive" (not sure what this means, I'm guessing from context "money"). It's pretty common in the art world, in fact.

[lmm]

>Meanwhile, it's eminently possible to be effective without "tangible incentive" (not sure what this means, I'm guessing from context "money"). It's pretty common in the art world, in fact.

Huh? Most of the art world is extremely ineffective (and the part that is effective tends to be money-oriented).