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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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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. To accomplish this, money had to flow to organizations devoted to recruiting, training, and developing community leaders.

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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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Taking Steps Toward Disability Inclusion in China

Stanford Social Innovation Review

percent of the population, China has enacted more than 60 laws and regulations aimed at safeguarding the rights of individuals with disabilities, encompassing those with visual, auditory, linguistic, physical, intellectual, psychological, and multiple disabilities. With 85 million people with disabilities, or 6.5

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Dr. James explains why sustainable giving starts by answering, “Do we have a shared future?”

iMarketSmart

Professor Adrian Sargeant explains, “It typically costs nonprofits two to three times as much to recruit a donor than they will give by way of a first donation.”[10] More than two-thirds of all donations over $1 million go to universities that hold large endowments or foundations that are large endowments.[22] Of course not.

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How to build deeper connections with your donors using surveys

iMarketSmart

Psychology studies show the same thing. The researchers explained, “nonprofit organizations are condemned more drastically for using a deceptive recruitment technique than are for-profit organizations.” Journal of Experimental Social Psychology , 76, 67-75.] Psychological Science, 26 (2), 231-236. [6] More was better.

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Super Useful Nonprofit Fiscal Year-End Action Strategies

Bloomerang

This has the subtle psychological benefit of reminding them they already did something. If it’s been awhile since your monthly donors got a real thank you, consider a ‘thankathon’ this month and recruit board members, development committee members, and/or other volunteers to help. Identify potential foundation and business funders. .