Contract Retainer Training 
Allied Grant Writers
JUNE 8, 2025
Monthly retainers Organizations that need ongoing grant support benefit from monthly retainers. Monthly retainer costs range widely. Most retainer agreements last 6-12 months. Many consultants set minimum retainer amounts between $1,500 and $3,000 per month. The real cost goes beyond the base salary.
Candid
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
He outlines questions nonprofit boards should ask to successfully recruit and retain members of color: how board diversity will affect the organizations work, whether theyre expanding their network of potential board candidates, and whether theyre building an inclusive and welcoming board culture. Ready to learn more?
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The Fundraising Coach
MAY 30, 2025
Charitable gift annuities (CGAs): CGAs are contracts between a donor and a nonprofit. After the donor passes away, the nonprofit retains the remaining value. Train staff and board members. The donor makes a gift of cash or property, and in exchange, they receive a fixed lifetime income stream.
RBW Strategy
JUNE 11, 2024
This requires that Federal agencies promote “compacting, contracting, co-management, co-stewardship, and other agreements with Tribal Nations” and identify funding programs that allow for Tribal set-asides or other benefit or resource programs. This allows for more flexibility at the end of a grant award period.
Blue Avocado
AUGUST 13, 2024
Clarice Williams from WEBS Training Center Lack of succession planning Not having an active succession plan. Making the switch from an inexpensive local bookkeeper to a contract accountant was expensive, but worth every penny, and it we had done it sooner it would have saved us a lot of headaches.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
And if a nonprofit lacks funding and resources for HR functions, then policy manuals and forms, performance reviews, and regular training can all become desperately out of date or be nonexistent. If you don't have trained or dedicated HR staff, obtain HR expertise on an as-needed basis.
Tom Ahern
DECEMBER 7, 2023
They paid me $2,000 in addition to my usual $1,500 monthly retainer as an on-call copy editor. We had a contract." Truly top performers are well-trained lifelong learners, sophisticated, passionate, daring and enchanting. Provisions for adjusted compensation were NOT in your contract, alas. Brian's client said no.
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