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.

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Think and Ink Grants

JANUARY 13, 2025

Measure and Communicate Success Effectively To earn and retain grant funding, organizations must provide clear evidence of their impact. If your organization lacks expertise in grant-seeking, consider consulting professionals or training staff to bolster your efforts. Grant Writing Training and discounted services here.

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Center for Major Gifts

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Demonstrating impact is not just about retaining donorsits about fostering meaningful relationships that lead to sustained philanthropic investment. Board members and volunteers also benefit from training in major gift fundraising, as their networks and influence can open doors to new donor opportunities.

Fundraising

Candid

JULY 21, 2025

Ongoing communication and stewardship builds trust and loyalty, and prioritizing this relationship-building work is precisely what keeps donors retained and ambassadors of your nonprofit. Board members and individual donors can likely give more, too, and if engaged, can invite others to support your cause.

Funding

GrantNews

JUNE 23, 2025

These one- to three-day events offer critical services such as food, shelter, clothing, health screenings, job training, mental health counseling, and housing referrals. This funding helps cover a wide range of export-related expenses, such as: trade show and trade mission fees, training workshops, travel costs, and marketing materials.

Government

Blue Avocado

JULY 8, 2025

Debbie from Cat Tales Wildlife Center Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Challenges Volunteer recruitment — and retaining those volunteers — has changed dramatically since COVID. Many organizations don’t have a full-time fundraiser or access to modern tools and training. Even more challenging is donor retention.

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Big Fundraising Ideas

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Volunteer management: Evaluate issues like lack of coordination or insufficient volunteer training. Improve volunteer training: Offer clear instructions, training sessions, or role-specific guides for volunteers. Proper documentation helps improve future fundraisers and retains knowledge even as teams or personnel change.

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Blackbaud

JULY 31, 2025

Staff training and development: Provides for the ongoing education and professional growth of nurses, doctors, and other medical personnel. Direct service delivery: Funds the core programs that provide food, shelter, counseling, job training, or crisis intervention.

Donation

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. Now, we maximize the best of both worlds — the work/life balance and focus time that working from home provides, as well as the collegial and cross-training advantages of being in person.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2025

Recruiting, training, recognizing, and retaining volunteers requires dedicated resources, yet funding for these efforts is almost nonexistent. The research identified significant underinvestment and helps make the case for funding for volunteer infrastructure. Volunteers may be unpaid; they are not free.

Training

NonProfit PRO

JULY 3, 2025

Unengaged or Improperly Trained Boards Aside from providing fiduciary responsibility and strategic advisory services to your organization, your board and CEO must create a strong partnership. It should inspire enthusiasm, encourage commitment, set standards of excellence, be ambitious but realistic and, most importantly, be measurable.

Retail

CauseVox

JULY 1, 2025

In short: CRM software for nonprofits helps you remember, recognize, and retain your donors (and that’s where the real magic happens!). Training your team to use both efficiently takes time and energy, especially if staff turnover is high or roles overlap. Download Our Free Guide To Nonprofit CRMs.

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Gail Perry Group

JULY 17, 2025

With the right coaching and training from our team, your MGO’s can build stronger qualification approaches so that gift officers can focus on the right donors at the right time. That’s something we emphasize in our training programs—how to use discovery to shape relevant, timely outreach.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 17, 2025

What’s more, things like inclusion, training, and fair wages attract talented and like-minded applicants. This brings to mind things like access to training, recognition for a job well done, and team building meetings or retreats. Funding is to retain expert consulting services to address court-related challenges.

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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.

Government

The Fundraising Coach

MAY 30, 2025

After the donor passes away, the nonprofit retains the remaining value. Train staff and board members. Charitable gift annuities (CGAs): CGAs are contracts between a donor and a nonprofit. The donor makes a gift of cash or property, and in exchange, they receive a fixed lifetime income stream. Provide tips on discussing planned giving.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 17, 2025

In this guide, we’ll explore four strategies for retaining your volunteers and cultivating loyal support for your mission. Provide resources that volunteers can reference later—such as a volunteer handbook—and reinforce training with hands-on experiences. Create a structured onboarding process. Maintain open communication.

Training

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.

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Gail Perry Group

JUNE 5, 2025

Retaining current donors is one of the biggest challenges in fundraising. If youd like expert help shaping a powerful year-end campaign or training your board and team to raise money with confidence, lets talk. ? Its a funny acronym, but really - its no laughing matter. Make it personal notes, calls, and customized emails ?

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2025

Cross training, cross investment, and cross sharing of data may become much more critical. Which projects are important to retain in all circumstances, and which can be put on hold to meet higher priorities? Rethink programmatic priorities: Are the assumptions youve made about your programs and services still true?

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GrantNews

MAY 1, 2025

Read on as we dive into the fascinating world of volunteering, along with a short list of sample grants designed to help nonprofits attract, train, and retain volunteers! For nonprofits, if you have been waiting for a sign to start offering more volunteering opportunities. Here it is!! in 2023, a 5.3% increase from 2022.

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Gail Perry Group

JANUARY 22, 2025

We have a challenge retaining some of our most generous supporters." "We When your team completes this 16-week professional development training program, theyll: Build lasting relationships with major donors by learning the Conversational Ask and the skills used by the most successful fundraisers. There aren't enough prospects.

Fundraising

Big Fundraising Ideas

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Families pay for admission, and your school retains some ticketsales. Marketing tip: Provide updates on social media, showing the runners training progress or the students practicelaps. Why it works: Indoor or covered shows create an immense sense of excitement. How to do it: Host an Easter egg hunt around the school grounds.

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 24, 2024

I have no training in marketing or fundraising. We do really well at retaining donors. I am the co-founder of an animal and nature sanctuary in upstate NY. I have taken several of your courses and read your blog. I have been the primary fundraiser for our organization for the last 30 years. I am a social worker by education.

Donation

The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 9, 2025

Regular training, open conversations, and diverse leadership help everyone feel respected and valued. Offer mentoring, leadership development workshops, and training tailored to nonprofit careers. Prioritizing Workplace Culture and Inclusion A strong, supportive workplace culture isnt just a nice to have, its essential.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Retain more volunteers over time. Send ongoing communications, offer regular training sessions, and demonstrate volunteers’ impact using data. For example, one staff member may be in charge of creating volunteer appreciation efforts while another facilitates ongoing volunteer training. Train volunteers effectively.

Management

Blackbaud

JULY 18, 2025

Practices may lose income due to small inefficiencies, outdated systems, or missed opportunities to engage and retain patients, even while sticking to an existing budget. In addition to these strategies, train your front desk and clinical staff to consistently use empathetic communication techniques.

Insurance

Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more important, retain volunteers by valuing their time, effort, and skills. If you’re ready to make a plan to retain your volunteers, start with these six tips. million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9 billion in economic value.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More importantly, are your staff and volunteers ready and trained to perform productively in their roles? But typically, the job someone had at the end of 2019 or the person doing it will have changed just enough that with some education and training in new skills, the organization and the person can thrive. But are you ready?

Training

Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Qgiv

JULY 12, 2022

How do you recruit, coach, and retain your board members? Before worrying about how to coach and retain board members, you first need a full board. Retaining your board members. Here are our tips on how to retain your board members and ensure their satisfaction with serving your organization as a board member.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 17, 2023

Recruiting and retaining nonprofit volunteers can be a challenge, especially in today’s busy and competitive world. In this article, we’ll explore some best practices for recruiting and retaining nonprofit volunteers. Volunteer Management Effective volunteer management is key to attracting and retaining volunteers.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Burk shows you what it takes to hire, train, and retain top people and build healthy fully functioning nonprofits. Donor-Centered Leadership (Amazon link) Train Your Board (and Everyone Else) to Raise Money: A Cookbook of Easy-to-Use Fundraising Exercises by Andrea Kihlstedt and Andy Robinson Whining about our boards.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 19, 2021

For New York City-based Smile Train, the largest cleft organization in the world, its year-end efforts last year presented challenges, yet valuable lessons learned that it will utilize as it moves forward. The COVID-19 pandemic halted its work around the world, but it soon found its voice, urging supporters that its work is still needed.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

Two of the examples it cited were made up, further reinforcing the idea that ChatGPT can give inaccurate information without proper training and supervision. The next step is to outline exactly what tasks and decision-making people will retain; what tasks AI will do or what will be automated and requires human oversight to prevent harm.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 18, 2021

Two case studies—League of Women Voters of Oakland and Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County—explored in this article show us that a successful volunteer program blends elements of human resources management and donor management: Recruiting Training Engaging Appreciating Evaluating Retaining No matter what […].

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GrantNews

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We need the skills that workforce training can provide. Expanding access to training programs can help bridge that gap. Expanding access to training programs can help bridge that gap. As a final point, there are grants available for nonprofits, schools, individuals, and businesses for workforce training.

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