NonProfit Leadership Center

JUNE 17, 2024

Effective Strategies for Attracting Nonprofit Professionals Mission-Driven Recruitment A great starting point to attract top talent is to ensure your organizational messaging clearly articulates your mission. Professional Development Another way to increase staff retention is to invest in the growth of your employees.

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Retention Culture Nonprofit Leadership Leadership 215

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Much like you focus on donor retention, you also have to develop a plan for employee retention to ensure your team feels satisfied coming to work each day and upholding your mission. In this article, we’ll go over five tips to help your nonprofit nurture a flourishing work environment to keep employee engagement and retention high.

Leadership 232

Leadership Retention Nonprofits Nonprofit Leadership 232

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 4, 2023

Recruiting top talent is crucial for any nonprofit organization, and your website is often the first point of contact between potential candidates and your organization. However, many nonprofits struggle to use their website effectively for recruitment. Promote your benefits.

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Recruitment Culture Values Nonprofits 130

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

AUGUST 6, 2024

However, you can only cultivate a diverse and skilled team by making the recruitment process accessible to all, regardless of their abilities or background. In this guide, we’ll provide you with expert tips to transcend traditional recruitment practices and standards by adopting universally inclusive interview tactics.

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Recruitment Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofits Leadership 198

Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Peter Drucker stressed the importance of strategic recruitment, emphasizing the need to select individuals based on their competencies, character, and dedication. Tailoring your recruitment efforts to find individuals whose skills and expertise align with your organization’s mission is fundamental.

Recruitment 105

Recruitment Race and Ethnicity Collaborations Retention 105

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 2, 2024

Consider the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s Designing Nonprofit Programs Certificate Training. He completed his DBA in Organizational Leadership and Development researching Appalachian nonprofits, psychological contracts, and retention. Embarking on the journey of developing new programs can be daunting.

Public and Social Policy 209

Public and Social Policy Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Culture 209

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 10, 2023

However, volunteers can quickly become another challenge for your event team if you don’t know how to effectively recruit and manage them. To recruit a team of energetic and helpful volunteers for your next event, you need to actively promote volunteering opportunities to your community of supporters. Let’s begin! Contact information.

Recruitment 200

Recruitment Nonprofits Management Activism 200

The Volunteer Hub

JULY 15, 2022

Strategically matching volunteers with assignments that allow them to excel can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization achieve its mission. Effectively utilizing your volunteer workforce can increase retention, improve engagement, and help your organization reach its mission.

Recruitment 86

Recruitment Altruism and Helping Volunteerism Volunteerism 86

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In today’s episode, Rob Harter is joined by Mariya Yurukova, founder of Charity Search Group (CSG), to discuss the essential connection between recruitment and retention in the nonprofit sector.

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Recruitment Retention Nonprofits Nonprofit Leadership 52

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

Higher Employee Retention: Employee appreciation research indicates that 34% of employees who leave their jobs do so because they crave more career development opportunities. Messages need to be concise yet powerful enough to inspire action, whether it’s driving donations, recruiting volunteers, or raising awareness about a cause.

Nonprofit Management 238

Nonprofit Management Management Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy 238

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Probably the most pressing issues are revenue generation, financial stability, innovation implementation, and staff recruitment and retention. The Business Case for Your Boss Why should you encourage your leadership to become more familiar with the grant development process? Leadership can direct funding priority areas 3.

Marketing 133

Marketing Marketing Culture Recruitment 133

Candid

JULY 22, 2024

Of those who did respond, 15% of all staff and roughly 10% of those in leadership roles identified as having a disability. People with disabilities are still often left out in terms of targeted recruitment at all levels, particularly for leadership positions.

Recruitment 116

Recruitment Leadership Culture Nonprofits 116

Anedot

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Recognized for our leadership and program excellence, we provide vital resources, educational opportunities, and economic support to individuals and families in our community. A trusted community resource, our quality programs are grounded in stability, expertise, and commitment to effectively address the changing needs of our community.

Food 52

Food Participation and motivation Non-Profits Nonprofit Administration and Development 52

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JULY 23, 2024

While many associations struggled with declining membership and retention rates due to the pandemic, these numbers have bounced back strongly as of 2023. As eCardWidget’s guide to member appreciation explains, thanking members can boost your retention rate, engagement levels, fundraising results, and recruitment success.

Participation and motivation 130

Participation and motivation Associations Retention Leadership 130

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 20, 2024

Strategies for Recruiting Developers For Start-ups In the competitive start-up market, it’s a great deal to hire developers who are skilled and align with the company’s vision. Utilizing Recruitment Agencies and Headhunters Specialized Agencies Engage recruitment agencies that specialize in tech roles.

Recruitment 52

Recruitment Insurance Retention Culture 52

Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

When I moved into the role, the previous volunteer leadership had been disorganized, lackadaisical, and inattentive. And, despite this ‘freedom,’ retention was low. As every experienced volunteer manager knows, volunteers want and need support, strong leadership, and clear policies and procedures.

Leadership 73

Leadership Retention Medical Management 73

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 26, 2022

According to Bloomerang’s donor stewardship guide , focusing on relationship-building efforts can boost your donor retention rate. According to Bloomerang’s donor stewardship guide , relationship-building efforts can boost your donor retention rate. Segment your supporters. Engage with your community. Express your appreciation. .

Participation and motivation 147

Participation and motivation Energy Retention Recruitment 147

Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 19, 2024

Being ready for that kind of targeting should be a central responsibility of leadership. But even though, today, I focus my work on the nonprofit sector more broadly—I am a nationally recognized nonprofit leadership expert, an executive coach for CEOs, and an advocate for the nonprofit sector—I’ve always kept my eye on GLAAD.

Public and Nonprofit Management 122

Public and Nonprofit Management Leadership Recruitment Management 122

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

AUGUST 27, 2024

Now more than ever, it’s essential that nonprofit leaders build a strong, adaptable team. But how do you find, keep, and mold top talent that aligns with your organization’s mission?

Recruitment 52

Recruitment Retention Values Nonprofits 52

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 22, 2023

By Sida Ly-Xiong After completing a leadership fellowship program for women of color, a program participant accepted a position as director of citizen engagement and education at a state public health agency in the United States. By failing to make a coordinated effort to support a new leader and leadership approach, the agency isolated her.

Public and Social Policy 124

Public and Social Policy Leadership Health Public and Nonprofit Management 124

Nonprofit Leadership Podcast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Recruitment and retention are hot topics on the minds of many nonprofit leaders right now. Today’s guest, Jakada Imani argues that if you want to recruit and retain a diverse staff, then the organization’s leaders must create an honest culture where people feel like they actually belong.

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Culture Leadership Recruitment Retention 52

The Agitator

MARCH 27, 2012

YET… day in day out thousands of nonprofits pour the bulk of their marketing and fundraising dollars into a leaky retention bucket, seemingly oblivious to this gigantic waste that endangers their very future. Truth be told, the real reason is: “Because we really don’t know how to improve retention and fix the leaky bucket.”.

Retention 75

Retention Fundraising Fundraising Recruitment 75

Ann Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

However, continually recruiting new volunteers to replace former ones can be a time and resource-intensive task. Showing appreciation for all your volunteers do for your nonprofit not only reinforces the positive difference they’re making, but it also helps you build relationships and boost retention rates. Appreciation events.

Public and Nonprofit Management 189

Public and Nonprofit Management Charitable Organizations Values Recruitment 189

Candid

MAY 5, 2021

Nonprofit Leadership Alliance’s nonprofit professional development expertise has helped hundreds of nonprofits understand their professional goals and empower them to find and train the employees they need. How your leadership responds to and promotes diversity will determine whether or not these practices result in tangible benefits.

Recruitment 119

Recruitment Culture Nonprofits Leadership 119

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Create a leadership team. Promote your program to recruit volunteers. Once you’ve strategized each of these steps, you’ll be able to create a volunteer management process that allows you to continually recruit, engage, and retain effective volunteers. Create a leadership team. Promote your program to recruit volunteers.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 115

Nonprofit Administration and Development Recruitment Management Leadership 115

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Such logic often applies to nonprofit recruitment of volunteers. The bottom line is clear: if nonprofits are going to operate volunteer programs that retain a diverse and representative cross-section of their communities, they need to be proactive about their recruitment and retention efforts to ensure that this occurs.

Nonprofit Administration and Development 133

Nonprofit Administration and Development Recruitment Culture Participation and motivation 133

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MARCH 8, 2023

Whether a donor lapses because they lost interest in your organization or their capacity to give changed, it’s five times more cost-effective to regain lapsed donors than it is to recruit new ones. Focus on donor retention throughout the year and have your CRM notify you when a donor is nearing the 12-month lapse mark.

Recruitment 130

Recruitment Retention Nonprofit Leadership Values 130

Bloomerang

MAY 1, 2023

Leadership Respondents expressed their concerns about frequent changes in leadership and its effect on the organization’s ability to fundraise. Roughly 33% of respondents (1 in 3) rate internal support for fundraising as below average in 2022, and they indicate that support from leadership has room to improve.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Fundraising Culture Leadership 98

The Volunteer Hub

MAY 13, 2022

Because of this, it is critical that your organization provides them with an easy, online, experience for recruitment, registration, and communication. Removing barriers for Gen-Z volunteers through the adoption of volunteer management software can increase recruitment and retention of this digitally savvy group of motivated volunteers.

Volunteerism 85

Volunteerism Volunteerism Nonprofit Administration and Development Recruitment 85

Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

LeFlore was at a career conference while at UM, and a select group of students had been invited to a hospitality suite to meet recruiters, based on their GPA. “I I snuck in and found a recruiter and it was a pivotal moment.” I wasn’t invited to that hospitality suite,” LeFlore says. “I She was hired.

Universities 98

Universities Recruitment Leadership Technology 98

Fundraising Coach

MARCH 22, 2016

I've been a leadership guy a lot longer than I've been a fundraising coach. In fact, one of the things I love about nonprofit fundraising is that fundraising impacts all areas of leadership: mission, vision, values, staff recruitment and retention, communicating vision. Everything. Have you ever been in that situation?

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Fundraising Fundraising Leadership Recruitment 73

Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

For instance, if you help recruit volunteers for a school, you must understand what type of volunteers you need and how to connect with them. Volunteers can develop leadership skills, project planning skills, and task management skills. Volunteering allows participants to gain new skills and knowledge in areas that interest them most.

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Volunteerism Volunteerism Participation and motivation Disaster Relief 111

Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 1, 2023

While a strong retention strategy encompasses more than just pay and benefits, you may want to start by re-evaluating your compensation philosophy and approach with the help of an experienced compensation consultant. All of your efforts to retain your employees feel like attempting to hold water in a sieve. So, what do you do?

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Nonprofit Organizations Nonprofit Organizations Retention Law 105

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Incorporate flexibility, recognition, a clear path for impact, and a foundational focus on retention into your program from the outset. Plan for the future But let’s remember an essential piece of the puzzle: retention starts the moment a volunteer hears about your opportunity.

Recruitment 64

Recruitment Retention Non-Profits Values 64

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Here at Bloomerang, we specialize in donor retention. Retention is the key to maximizing your fundraising strategy, and appreciation is at the root of that strategy. Plus, a good recurring donation program provides consistent funding for organizations and increases the retention rate. Analyze Your Audience.

Retention 135

Retention Activism Fundraising Fundraising 135

Bloomerang

MAY 9, 2021

Here at Bloomerang, we specialize in donor retention. Retention is the key to maximizing your fundraising strategy, and appreciation is at the root of that strategy. Plus, a good recurring donation program provides consistent funding for organizations and increases the retention rate. Analyze Your Audience.

Retention 135

Retention Activism Fundraising Fundraising 135

The Volunteer Hub

MAY 5, 2023

Depending on the roles that an organization is recruiting volunteers for, this training plan may vary by volunteer opportunity. This will make volunteers feel valued and supported, which can lead to greater engagement and retention. A culture of recognition can create a positive environment and increase volunteer retention rates.

Public and Nonprofit Management 95

Public and Nonprofit Management Volunteerism Volunteerism Recruitment 95