NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

Related Content Strategic Advice for Navigating DEI Challenges Why CEOs Must Be Community Relationship Champions Why Do Nonprofits Struggle to Retain Fundraisers? In addition, he is the author of six books and a sought-after motivational speaker and retreat facilitator. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

Retail

Strategic Grants

JANUARY 29, 2025

For-Purpose approach: Strong teamwork and strategic communication are vital. Build and maintain a collaborative culture within your teams and invest in professional development to retain skilled staff and volunteers.

Strategic Plan

NonProfit PRO

JULY 21, 2025

This opens the door to competitive differentiation for those who are willing to invest in a proactive approach to retaining individual donors. With the average cost of acquiring a new donor five times greater than retaining an existing one, organizations would be remiss to ignore this key aspect of their strategy. rail-container).hide();

Retail

NonProfit PRO

JULY 29, 2025

Nonprofits Struggle to Obtain Second Gifts and Bring Back Lapsed Donors Donor acquisition remains soft with new donors having dropped 10.9%, and new-retained donors (first-time donors in 2024 who gave again) having fallen 11.4%. Meanwhile, loyal repeat-retained donors had a less severe drop of 6.1% Overall, the low 18.1%

Retail

Blue Avocado

JUNE 10, 2025

This overall has been a positive since it reduces long commutes and lets us recruit and retain staff that might otherwise not apply. Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Remote Flexibility: Balancing Connection and Building Trust There is more flexibility for people to work in a hybrid work model.

Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

JULY 10, 2025

Related story: Why Do Nonprofits Struggle to Retain Fundraising Staff? This marks a shift from last year’s findings, when 55% of respondents anticipated leaving their current position. The 2025 data suggests improved job satisfaction and organizational loyalty. addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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Blackbaud

APRIL 22, 2025

When youre planning your recruitment tactics, ensure that you establish a regular cadence for gauging their effectiveness and gathering feedback from other members of your team. Over time, youll start to develop the optimal recruitment solutions for your nonprofit and build (and retain ) a team of passionate advocates.

Nonprofit

NonProfit PRO

JULY 25, 2025

How do they hire, train, and retain people? Professional development. Appreciation days and casual dress codes. Small gestures, like snacks or Friday half-days. Then study successful nonprofits. What does their internal culture look like? Ask nonprofit consultants, human resource specialists and thought leaders for advice. rail-container).hide();

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 16, 2025

Blackbaud customers can easily import constituent lists, update subscription preferences to comply with supporter consent, and retain selected fields from Raisers Edge NXT in their Constant Contact accounts. This simplifies automation and personalization of outreach based on supporter interactions and characteristics. setForceSafeFrame(true).addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 11, 2025

Education and Teacher Development : Professional development, curriculum innovation, and efforts to retain educators are stalling. However, it has also shown that strategic planning, legal advocacy, and compelling storytelling are powerful tools in the fight for resource equity.

Federal Grants

NonProfit PRO

JULY 8, 2025

Why Do Nonprofits Struggle to Retain Fundraisers? The views expressed within may not directly reflect the thoughts or opinions of the staff of NonProfit PRO. window.dfp_npp_ros_inline = googletag.defineSlot("/124057991/npp_ros_inline", [fluid], "napco-ad-npp_ros_inline").addService(googletag.pubads()).setCollapseEmptyDiv(true).setTargeting("ic",

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CauseVox

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Chanda has led small to medium size organizations through rebranding, strategic planning and leadership transitions. She is the founder #ladyboss, a professional women’s meet-up group, dreams of cooking with Chef Yotam Ottolenghi, and her Instagram feed is all food dishes that she hopes Ottolenghi will find impressive.

Retainer

NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Lack of alignment can happen at any level because subordinate employees do not have the tools to see if their work aligns with the strategic plan. They may know their nonprofit needs to raise $14 million, but not the organizational goal of retaining more event participants and transitioning them to sustaining donors.

Strategic Plan

NonProfit PRO

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The best nonprofits are the ones that know the value of an employer brand communications plan. They understand a strategic plan can help attract and retain the top talent and avoid facing the current struggles of today’s competitive job market.

Strategic Plan

NonProfit PRO

APRIL 19, 2023

Though giving tends to rise around these events, nonprofits often are unable to retain these often one-time donors. If your organization doesn’t have a plan to steward these reactionary donations to make them become more commonplace, it should. Nonprofits react to crises.

Retainer

amplifi

AUGUST 8, 2024

LEARN MORE: The next step to thank and retain year-end donors. You’ll maximize your impact and drive your mission forward by setting clear goals, coming up with a strategic plan, and leveraging key fundraising opportunities like GivingTuesday. Let data drive decision-making. But don’t wait to get started!

Metrics

Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 23, 2023

Calculate how much you are making per hour for different clients, especially if you are working on a flat rate or retainer that isn’t based on an hourly rate. If you find that you are not making enough, consider raising your prices or reducing the number of grants you write for the same monthly/quarterly retainer rate.

Grant Writing

Pamela Grow

JANUARY 11, 2024

Staffing The National Council of Nonprofits reports that “nonprofits around the country are reporting significant challenges retaining staff and filling vacancies.

AI

Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

The organizations that can do the best job of retaining donors in 2023 will be most successful—not just in this year, but for years to come. The firm has offices in Athens, Georgia and Franklin, Tennessee and serves nonprofits across the country in fundraising, strategic planning, board development and leadership development.

Nonprofit

Qgiv

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This blog post explores how to create an annual fundraising plan and even provides a helpful annual fundraising plan template to help putting together your fundraising plan easier. What is an annual fundraising plan (also known as a nonprofit strategic plan)? What does a nonprofit strategic plan include?

Fundraising

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 23, 2023

Nevertheless, most organizations will find they are missing something, whether it is a sam.gov registration, current strategic plan, or updated org chart. Some charge per hour, some per project, and some on a retainer. Second, everyone thinks their organization is grant ready.

Consultant

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Using data to educate management, boards, and other stakeholders for strategic planning. The report quotes nonprofit technology leader, Lucy Bernholz: "Nonprofits and foundations do all the same things with digital data that businesses do — they collect, store, use, share, mine, retain, and destroy it."

Strategic Plan

Community Boost

JULY 3, 2024

They must build trust with the people they serve while attracting and retaining donors and volunteers. Role of Brand Ambassadors in Nonprofit Branding Nonprofits don’t have the benefit of focusing on one or even two audiences. One of the primary ways branding helps with this is through differentiation.

Nonprofit

Greater Giving

APRIL 23, 2024

Board members and event committee members often have a significant influence on strategic planning and resource allocation. Leadership can champion practices like clear communication, appreciation, and growth opportunities to retain volunteers. Why is Volunteer Orientation Important for Leadership?

Mentor

Grants Plus

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Moreover, relying solely on pay increases to retain and attract grants staff may not address the underlying challenges of workload management and sustainability. Deviating from strategic plans and becoming overwhelmed with additional tasks can hinder long-term organizational success.

Grant

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Your enrollment is at risk if: The school fails to nurture the family relationship The child has a poor initial experience The onboarding process is disorganized Remember: retaining a student costs less than recruiting a new one.

Contract

Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Free nonprofit resources offer your organization knowledge, strategic planning, and valuable data to help you accomplish your goals more efficiently. This guide can help you better manage and retain your volunteers. Thankfully, there are free volunteer management resources you can use to maximize your volunteers’ efficiency.

Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

These expenses include: Oversight and management, including the portion of the salaries of the Executive Director and support staff that are not attributable to fundraising or programs (staff meetings, strategic planning, annual meetings, etc.). Spend every dollar strategically, so that you are making a good investment.

Fundraising

Greater Giving

JUNE 20, 2024

This flexibility ensures that the event can proceed effectively regardless of budget constraints: Modular Planning Break down the event into modular components that can be added or removed based on resource availability. This ensures core elements are retained even if budget adjustments are necessary.

Fundraising

Blackbaud

MARCH 4, 2024

There is value in recruiting and retaining those who can drive collaboration, break down silos, and win ‘hearts and minds’ across and beyond your institution. So, the most obvious point is to prepare and be ready for that continuous change management, with solutions for advancement that will keep pace with an ever-changing world.

Education

Grant Writing Made Easy

APRIL 16, 2023

Create a quarterly statement of work for retainer clients Since your contract for retainer work likely won’t specify which grants or LOIs you’ll write (if part of your retainer is finding the grant opportunities for them) create a quarterly statement of work.

Grant Writing

Blackbaud

JUNE 25, 2024

Towards this, there is value in recruiting and retaining those who can drive collaboration, break down silos, and win ‘hearts and minds’ across and beyond your charity. It’s likely that you will need to tweak your brand and messaging to empower innovation and activism across your supporter community.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

JANUARY 12, 2025

To win over new donors and retain current supporters, nonprofits must fully engage their stakeholders and prove why their causes are worth supporting. Did you know that total giving declined by 2.1% when adjusted for inflation in 2023? Small tweaks to your fundraising appeal can make a big difference in persuading people to give.

Fundraising

Grant Writing Made Easy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

If you currently have access and wish to retain it, you can do so, including both lifetime and monthly members. For now, we will keep GWME accessible to existing members. However, we will discontinue the bi-monthly workshops and cease content updates after Dec.

Grant Writing

CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

We’re focused on recruiting them, retaining, engaging, and so on. Of course, you know all about the importance of reporting your nonprofit’s results and following a strategic plan, so we won’t dive into the nitty-gritty of that here. As nonprofit fundraisers, we’re always thinking about our donors first.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 9, 2024

Some other common services include: Fundraising solutions Strategic planning Communications Board and staff training Along with the services consultants provide, you’ll also want to consider the following factors: Founding philosophies: Ensure a prospective consultant’s mission and values align with your own.

Consultant

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Strengthen retention efforts: Retaining current students is more cost-effective than recruiting new ones. A clearly communicated financial aid policy is crucial and regular reviews help schools maintain optimal NTR while meeting accessibility goals.

Metrics