Listening to Stay: How One Conversation Can Change Everything for Nonprofit Teams For many organizations, retention conversations often begin too late, after a valued team member has already decided to move on. Exit interviews offer reflection, but they rarely offer a second chance. Stay interviews do. These conversations invite leaders [...]
What the 2026 Nonprofit Talent Market is Teaching Us Now The 2026 Nonprofit Compensation and Talent Strategies Report anticipated significant marketplace shifts now unfolding across the sector. Economic uncertainty, evolving workforce expectations, funding volatility, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies are reshaping how organizations compete for and retain talent. While compensation benchmarks remain essential [...]
How Support Systems Shape Sustainable Nonprofit Leadership Nonprofit leadership is often fueled by purpose, urgency, and a deep commitment to others. But that same passion can quietly become a liability when leaders neglect their own well-being. At first, it can feel like strength. Being the steady one. The available one. [...]
Leading Executive Change Well: From Transition to Traction Leadership transitions are pivotal moments in a nonprofit's journey. Whether it’s a beloved founder stepping down, a long-serving executive retiring, or an unexpected departure, change at the top can evoke a range of emotions. For boards and leadership teams, it often feels [...]
What Nonprofit Teams Need Most Right Now Is Care In nonprofit work, burnout often sneaks in quietly. It doesn’t arrive as a dramatic collapse. It shows as a little more exhaustion at the end of the day, a little less patience in meetings, a creeping sense that the work never [...]
Volunteers Are Essential, So Why Are They So Hard to Keep? For small nonprofits, volunteers aren’t a “nice to have.” They are the engine that keeps programs running, doors open, and missions alive. Yet many nonprofit leaders find themselves stuck in a frustrating cycle: recruiting volunteers takes time they don’t have, [...]
People Still Choose Mission, But Pay Decides Whether They Stay Nonprofit leaders don’t need to be told that hiring feels harder than it used to. Compensation has moved to the center of nearly every hiring and retention conversation. Interest in mission-driven work is still strong. People want purpose. But in [...]
Building a Workplace Culture That Retains Nonprofit Talent Retaining great people has become one of the toughest challenges for today’s nonprofit leaders. With competition for skilled talent higher than ever, many organizations feel compelled to raise salaries to keep up—yet pay increases alone rarely inspire long-term commitment. In fact, research [...]
New Year, New Employment Laws: What Takes Effect January 1, 2026? Written by Joy Rosenquist, Bruce Sarchet, and Sebastian Chilco Re-published with permission from Littler Law As the calendar turns to 2026, employers across the country face a fresh wave of labor and employment law changes that will reshape [...]
Money with Meaning: How Strong Nonprofit CFOs Drive Success Behind every successful nonprofit is a finance team that knows how to turn vision into action. Strong financial leadership isn’t just about balancing the books – it brings strategy, foresight, and stability to the mission. Good financial leadership keeps programs sustainable, ensures [...]
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