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Keeping the Dream Team: Unleashing the Power of Employee Retention in Nonprofits

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

This cost includes marketing and recruiting for the position, the extra time it takes for other staff to adopt and complete the tasks to stay on target, and training the new employee. Nonprofits can create strong psychological contracts by aligning organizational values with staff passions.

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Bridging Generational Divides in Nonprofit Staff: 7 Steps

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

He completed his DBA in Organizational Leadership and Development researching Appalachian nonprofits, psychological contracts, and retention. His expertise includes public relations, advertising, fundraising, social media, recruitment, retention, event development, leadership development, and community engagement.

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Newsletter: Why are Round-Up Fundraisers So Successful? ; The Most Underrated Sales Skill Is Follow-Up ; Copywriting Tips Inspired by Comedian Norm MacDonald

Selfish Giving

The rounding up option] made it psychologically easy for people to do more of what they were already doing." on groceries you're probably already telling yourself that you spent $87 so rounding up to that amount is psychologically easy when the cashiers asks. We already mentally round up the amount we pay on loans. Closely connected??The

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Strategic Nonprofit Growth: Navigating the 7 Stages

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

He completed his DBA in Organizational Leadership and Development researching Appalachian nonprofits, psychological contracts, and retention. His expertise includes public relations, advertising, fundraising, social media, recruitment, retention, event development, leadership development, and community engagement.

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Tackling Eco-Anxiety Through Experiential Education

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Research shows many young people are experiencing adverse psychological and emotional impacts as a result. Although estimates vary, hundreds of millions of people could be experiencing some type of adverse psychological or negative socioemotional response to the climate emergency. What might educators do to counter this trend?

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Selling Local Sponsorships for Nonprofits: Reaching Out to Prospects

Selfish Giving

Psychologically it’s a big threshold for a decision maker to cross and when they do, well, they generally mean it (Think mom: “No means no!&# ). We just recruited a prospect that we had been calling for five years! These are all excuses (no, good reasons) for prospects to say no. “Really?

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From Scarcity to Inspiration: Rethinking the Value of Nonprofit Facilities

NonProfit Quarterly

As I suggest in the graphic below, nonprofit facilities exist on a similar hierarchy—with physical, psychological, and economic needs that must be met before an agency can transition to the next stage of its work. Even more insidious are the psychological pressures that accompany these financial decisions.

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