
Staffing & Human Resources

What nonprofit leaders need is a "people’s strategic plan," a clear and consistent framework and set of measurable actions to invest in their people and culture. Just like organizations have a strategic plan to achieve financial and programmatic goals, they need a roadmap to invest in talent development, too...
If we are not aware of how it can sneak into our organizations, we can’t respond to it. The truth is that bias is already lurking inside our organizations — and inside ourselves. If we know where to look, we will be much better prepared to respond to the danger...
During this webinar attendees will learn the impacts of COVID-19 on the nonprofit sector.
We've known for years that there has been grumbling about the nonprofit sector. Among themselves, nonprofit professionals have confided in each other stories of abusive bosses, entitled and non-diverse boards, lack of vision, chaos, and dysfunction. Unfortunately, these rumblings are causing a brain drain in the industry...
U.S. nonprofit salaries began to rise in early 2020, but those numbers soon dropped back down to 2019 levels due to the pandemic, according to new research from the Association of Fundraising Professionals...
In the United States, about 1.5 million nonprofits exist. But, then a natural question is how many of them fail? As we know, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, as many as one-third of nonprofits were at risk of closing their doors. So, what are the top reasons nonprofits fail—aside from a situation like the pandemic? And more importantly, if you're a nonprofit leader and founder, how do you avoid it happening?...
For nonprofits with positions that can accommodate remote work, more than half are considering permanent remote work options, according to NonprofitHR’s “Nonprofit Return to Workplace 2021 Pulse Survey Results.”
The conventional wisdom in today’s health insurance marketplace holds that nonprofits should not consider a self-funded health insurance model because cash flow concerns make such a plan too risky. This notion is false, and it has been perpetuated for years by both the insurance carriers and the broker community...
As the tide of uncertainty moved in a variety of directions during the pandemic, organizations lost valuable employees, including executive directors. As we move into the fall of 2021, many organizations have determined to organizationally regroup and begin to look for new employees plus leadership...
I was recently asked to sit on a nonprofit position interview as an unpaid adviser. I was also asked to serve as an adviser to a nonprofit search committee. Another hiring firm contacted me recently and asked me to recommend them to a prospective nonprofit. There is a great deal of action in the nonprofit hiring world these days...