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How can nonprofits grow sustainable revenue by retaining fundraising professionals?

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration generated by DALL·E. Fundraisers and the revenue they generate make mission fulfillment possible (while also helping leaders get more restful sleep!). Internal mentoring program. Christopher Cordes is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Illustration generated by DALL·E. When nonprofit leadership takes the time to build relationships, mentor staff, elicit insights and feedback and demonstrate the ability to act on that feedback, the staff will begin to trust that they have a place and a voice within the organization.

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How can nonprofits acquire skilled talent to better achieve their mission?

ASU Lodestar Center

New York University professor Paul Light writes, “(Nonprofit) Employees are members of a first-rate workforce often employed in second-rate organizations with third-rate equipment.” Additionally, a robust HR team can establish a strategic management and recruitment plan that simultaneously generates higher acquisition and retention rates.

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Nonprofits Need To Nurture the Next Generation of New Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, I was chatting with Joan Garry , a consultant who works with current nonprofit leaders about the ways that nonprofits need to change in order to nurture the next generation of young leaders for the nonprofit sector. HALF OF ONE PERCENT (yes, I’m raising my voice). We need a new generation of leaders. Let em sink in.

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What strategies can nonprofits enact to retain millennials?

ASU Lodestar Center

As of 2016, Millennials (those born between 1981-1996) are the largest generation in the U.S. Millennials are often referred to as the “job hopping generation” due to their tendency to change jobs more frequently than previous generations. workforce and will comprise 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

Networking can be second nature to those raised in that environment, but completely alien to others. The long-term goal is that this declines as each new generation advances, but as we have seen in recent years, these deep rooted social ethnic divides are ingrained in western societies and hardwired into how our cultures function.

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What happened to the FUN in Fundraising?

ASU Lodestar Center

With limited financial resources and human capital to dedicate toward annual funds, campaigns or special events, nonprofit organizations typically find themselves stuck in a rut; a rut that seldom generates new or additional funds. A mentor at my first fundraising job once told me that I was “too naïve to know what won’t work.”

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