Blue Avocado

JANUARY 14, 2025

Quality, dedicated nonprofit volunteers and skilled staff are the key to any successful mission. When we recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “What is your biggest challenge in recruiting and retaining skilled staff or volunteers?” ” , once again, nonprofit leaders came through!

Recruitment

Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Partnerships between nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies to boost workplace volunteering and community impact can create significant value for both parties. Here are five takeaways from the 2024 Civic 50 Report that nonprofit leaders can leverage to expand or initiate successful corporate partnerships: 1.

Disaster Relief

Bloomerang

APRIL 10, 2025

If volunteers make up a large percentage of your nonprofits team, you know how important their support and dedication are in your efforts to achieve your mission. However, 26% of volunteer leaders noted that recruiting volunteers was a top challenge for their organization in 2024. What does a volunteer recruitment plan look like?

Recruitment

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

ByJackie Sue Griffin The nonprofit world isnt what it used to be. To thrive during 2025, nonprofits must create workplaces where employees feel connected to the mission and see clear opportunities for growth. Your nonprofits brand isnt just about marketing; its about showing potential hires what makes your organization special.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Here’s how nonprofits are using QR codes to engage their audiences effectively: Fundraising: From charity sweepstakes to crowdfunding campaigns, QR codes placed on postcards, flyers, or social media provide a conduit for instant participation.

Recruitment

Candid

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A nonprofit is more like a public company than a private enterprise in that it’s governed by a board of directors as well as its executive team. That’s why setting up the board’s structures and bylaws with care is one of the most important things a nonprofit founder can do. How do I find board members?

Nonprofit governance and management

Ann Green

JULY 22, 2025

By Kyle Payton Volunteers make the nonprofit world go round. While volunteer roles vary from nonprofit to nonprofit — after all, a thrift store , healthcare organization, and animal shelter likely all have very different offerings — there may be opportunities to provide new and interesting roles at your organization.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 9, 2025

By Shannon Whitehead , Content Strategist at Neon One a software that connects nonprofits with the technology and resources that empower them to build a community of generosity. Launching a peer-to-peer campaign begins with recruiting some of your most fervent supporters to organize personal campaigns on your organizations behalf.

Participation and motivation

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 26, 2025

In this guide, well explore top tips for recruiting a robust volunteer community, as well as suggestions to help you manage and retain your volunteers. Most businesses know that its easier to retain existing customers than to attract new ones, and the same logic applies to recruiting volunteers. Lets get started!

Recruitment

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Launching a new nonprofit is an exhilarating feeling. Here’s something to keep in mind, starting now: self-funding a nonprofit is not sustainable. Before you start making Asks, you have to assemble your Board, recruit your initial volunteers, set up an accounting system, establish a website, and tackle a few other tasks.

Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

5 Effective Donor Retention Strategies for Small Nonprofits Its tempting for small nonprofits to focus heavily on donor acquisition. After all, the more donors who give, the more funds you get, and the larger your nonprofit becomes. Therefore, your nonprofit must first master the art of effective donor retention.

Retention

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 6, 2025

Your nonprofits membership program provides a sustainable revenue stream that you can rely on year-round. One powerful tactic to consider is recruiting member ambassadors. A member ambassador program allows your nonprofit to amplify its reach and connect with more members in an authentic way. Fostering a welcoming community.

Recruitment

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Connecting with new donors is crucial to growing your nonprofits supporter base and ultimately raising more for your cause. – Source New donors invigorate your nonprofit with a fresh wave of funding and engagement. – Source New donors invigorate your nonprofit with a fresh wave of funding and engagement.

Nonprofit Organizations

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Manager of Brand Marketing at Bloomerang – the unified giving platform for nonprofits designed to deliver deeper insights for more targeted outreach, stronger relationships, and greater impact. Volunteers are a vital resource for nonprofit organizations. By Melaina Chromy , Sr. It’s also about where a story is told.

Marketing

Candid

APRIL 2, 2025

For nearly 20 years, our team at On-Ramps has been helping nonprofit organizations recruit mid- to senior-level leaders. Sadly, one refrain weve been hearing quite a bit is that recent developments affecting the sector are prompting many nonprofit workers to look for new job opportunities.

Nonprofit governance and management

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Manager of Brand Marketing at Bloomerang – the unified giving platform for nonprofits designed to deliver deeper insights for more targeted outreach, stronger relationships, and greater impact. Volunteers are a vital resource for nonprofit organizations. By Melaina Chromy , Sr. It’s also about where a story is told.

Recruitment

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 28, 2025

As any nonprofit professional knows, implementing a thorough marketing strategy takes work. By automating entire marketing journeys, you can save time while ensuring your messages reach the right audiences at the right times. For instance, say youre creating a marketing campaign aimed at turning recurring volunteers into donors.

Marketing

Fundraising Coach

JUNE 20, 2025

Your nonprofit’s website is one of your most valuable tools for sharing your mission and engaging your community. Search engine optimization (SEO)—the process of improving your site so it ranks higher in search engine results—is foundational to nonprofit website marketing. nonprofits). 501(c)(3) status for U.S.

Marketing

Ann Green

MARCH 17, 2025

Donor retention is a perennial problem for nonprofit organizations. Right now were dealing with cuts in federal funding, tariffs, a plunging stock market, etc, which are creating constant chaos for us. Right now were dealing with cuts in federal funding, tariffs, a plunging stock market, etc, which are creating constant chaos for us.

Retention

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 1, 2025

Therefore, its your goal to promote your donation page using every resource in your nonprofits marketing toolbox to reach the widest possible audience. As a nonprofit marketing professional, you know social media is an effective way to engage your online community and increase support for your mission.

Nonprofits

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Volunteers are some of your nonprofits most valuable supporters, dedicating their time and talents to further your mission. Since they already believe deeply in your cause and have positively responded to recruitment efforts , volunteers are naturally predisposed to support your organization financiallyif you approach them correctly.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Stanford Social Innovation Review

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI coaches, tutors, navigators, caseworkers, and assistants could overcome the very real challengeslike cost, recruitment, training, and retentionthat have made access to vital forms of high-quality human support perennially hard to scale. But scaling bots that simulate human support presents new risks. Our bot, Blu, is a cheerleader.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JULY 30, 2025

Steinberg is a fundraising powerhouse with more than 20 years of experience producing high-impact nonprofit events and millions raised for mission-driven causes. So why is your world-changing organization called a “nonprofit”? And the more you raise, recruit, and retain, the more good you can do. Ridiculous, right?

Recruitment

Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2025

As you plan the fundraising events on your nonprofits calendar this year, you likely have questions about which formats will attract the largest audience: in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Virtual and hybrid events absolutely still have a place in the nonprofit fundraising world.

Fundraising

Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program. From hurdles like volunteer recruitment and burnout to all too common mistakes like disorganized training, its not easy to run an effective program, even if you have the best intentions. Invest in volunteer management software.

Public and Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2025

Manager of Brand Marketing at Bloomerang – the unified giving platform for nonprofits designed to deliver deeper insights for more targeted outreach, stronger relationships, and greater impact. Volunteers are a vital resource for nonprofit organizations. By Melaina Chromy , Sr. It’s also about where a story is told.

Recruitment

The Killoe Group

APRIL 28, 2025

Peer-to-peer fundraising is a powerful approach for nonprofits. For inspiration, take a look at examples of creative and successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns from other nonprofits. This includes: Recruiting participants : Make sure you articulate why different groups of people might care about your program, event, or cause.

Participation and motivation

Candid

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nonprofits also experience high volunteer turnover due to their life cycles, which ebb and flow with local and global crises or social issues such as human rights, health, and environmental concerns, as well as the transient nature of volunteering. Lets dig into these in a bit more detail.

Volunteerism

Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key performance indicators (KPIs) help nonprofits determine where they stand while pursuing their most important goals. But while your organization might be on top of metrics for fundraising and volunteer recruitment , there are other operational areas you can optimize—such as hiring.

Recruitment

Get Fully Funded

JULY 7, 2025

Your most loyal and invested supporters often want to do more for your nonprofit and its mission. Host a Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Challenge Peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising campaigns invite supporters to solicit donations for your nonprofit from their personal networks. Let’s get started!

Participation and motivation

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JULY 9, 2025

In today’s noisy digital world, that stat has big implications for how nonprofits write appeals, newsletters, and even mission statements. Lynn Bohart is a seasoned nonprofit professional turned author and writing consultant. Lynn Bohart is a seasoned nonprofit professional turned author and writing consultant.

Recruitment

NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I have been involved for many years, running a pioneering program for Great Britain’s government and then advising US agencies through a nonprofit. We spent a year working with a US workforce board to launch its own regional hourly labor market as an alternative to Silicon Valley’s apps. Funders—including the Annie E.

Nonprofit governance and management

Anedot

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to our mission, have demonstrated success in nonprofit administration and the ability to inspire and lead a largely volunteer-driven organization. IT, communications/marketing, finance, administrative support). Deep commitment to the mission of NAMI Marin.

Nonprofit Administration and Development

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 10, 2025

4 Ways to Decide On Your Annual Nonprofit Fundraising Events When you sit down with your team to plan the year’s fundraisers, where do you start? Do you prioritize finances, donor behavior, marketing opportunities , or something else? Take stock of your nonprofit’s strengths and challenges.

Fundraising

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2025

Other mega gifts to higher education included $200 million from an anonymous donor to Catawba College, $150 million from Byron Trott toward recruiting rural students, and a bequest of at least $150 million from Glenn and Barbara Britt to Dartmouth College. In the area of health and medical research, City of Hope received $150 million from A.

Medical

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JULY 2, 2025

Planned giving often seems like a strategy reserved for large institutions or a distant concern for smaller nonprofits. So why is your world-changing organization called a “nonprofit”? And the more you raise, recruit, and retain, the more good you can do. We’d give teachers non-apples and fly non-cars.

Donor Motivation

Care2

JANUARY 20, 2025

Your nonprofits website may feature all the latest bells and whistles your content management system has to offer, like a dynamic homepage, interactive content, and professional videos. However, these features alone wont help you recruit and retain new supporters long term.

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