How Not to Lose a Critical Asset: Retaining Your Staff
No discernible career path
Too often, we're consumed with the urgent in nonprofits. We need to raise money now or respond to a crisis that impacts our target population. Things like annual reviews, career pathing and training on new skills get pushed back — sometimes never to resurface again.
Personally, in 30 years of work for nonprofits, I had fewer than 10 annual reviews, and less than half of those were more than perfunctory meetings saying in essence, "You're doing fine; now go do more of it."
Pamela Barden is an independent fundraising consultant focused on direct response. You can read more of her fundraising columns here.
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