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Volunteering is paid in skills.

The myth that volunteering is free labor is the reason most volunteer programs burn through their cohorts in 90 days. The fix is not more pep talks. The fix is to treat the contribution like the exchange it actually is.

Kamel Asmar·May 2026

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