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Recruiting and Keeping Volunteers: A Practical Guide for Community Groups
Volunteers are the backbone of community work, but many groups struggle to find them and even more struggle to keep them. This guide covers recruitment, onboarding, support and recognition.
The Boston Made Foundation provides community guides and volunteering resources, and one of the most common challenges community organizers describe is people: finding enough volunteers, and then keeping them involved after the first event. A neighborhood cleanup crew, a tutoring program, a community garden or a food pantry may start with enthusiasm, then watch participation fade. The good news is…
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Writing a Simple Personal Operating Manual for Collaborators
A personal operating manual is a short document that tells collaborators how you work best. Here is how to write one, what to include and how to keep it useful rather than a list of demands.
Keep Up With Nate is a founder-journey content channel, and one recurring theme in founder stories is how much time gets lost to misunderstandings between collaborators. Someone prefers quick messages; someone else needs a written brief. One person thinks out loud; another needs time to reflect. A personal operating manual, sometimes called a “user manual” or “working with me” document,…
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Accessibility Features Every Local-Discovery App Should Support
Apps that help people find local businesses should work for everyone, including people with disabilities. This guide covers the accessibility features that matter most and how users can check for them.
The Boston Made App and BostonMade.io form the app and web platform that helps people find the Boston Made brands, and any platform built around discovery shares a basic responsibility: it should be usable by everyone. Local-discovery apps, those that help people find restaurants, shops, services and events nearby, are only as useful as they are accessible. For people who…
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Reflective Gear and Visibility for Evening Dog Walks
Shorter days mean many dog walks happen in twilight or darkness. This guide explains the difference between reflective and fluorescent materials, where to place visibility gear and other habits that help drivers and cyclists see you and your dog.
Pupwear, a dog apparel brand among the independent sister companies affiliated with Boston Made, Inc., works in a category where visibility is a practical concern, especially during the darker months. In much of the year in New England, the early-morning and evening walks that fit around work and school take place in dim light or full darkness. Dogs, particularly those…
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