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How Can Nonprofits Retain High-Performing Staff?

ASU Lodestar Center

Unfortunately, the data shows that 81 percent of organizations are without a retention program. When creating a retention strategy, it is important to consider the entire employment cycle, paying attention to both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. A recruitment plan supports retention from the start. Compensation. Recruitment.

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Red Light, Green Light for Peer to Peer Fundraising in 2015

Connection Cafe

Here is Shana’s complete list of things to green light (start doing) and red light (stop doing) this year! Green Light: Embrace Your Complainers! As a Peer-to-Peer Fundraiser, you sometimes feel like your only job is addressing complaints from your participants, volunteers, committee members, other staff, etc.

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ROI (Results on Insights): Nonprofit Examples of How Listening Returns Value

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. He notes that they have a 80% retention rate with members and "you can't do that without listening." And you shared them! Here's what I learned. Observations. This drove traffic.

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How To Be A Green Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, October 28, 2010 How To Be A Green Leader You can be a green leader at work and help save the planet and money for your business, by following these practices and instilling these habits with your employees: Photocopiers: Use the "standby" button on your copiers and that will lighten your energy load by 70 percent.

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Using Metrics to Boost Your Fundraising

NonProfit Hub

While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? Donor Retention Rate. Without question, your donor retention rate is one of the most important fundraising metrics. So why is donor retention such a big deal?

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Plan Monthly Job Learning Days

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Plan Monthly Job Learning Days Having your employees learn more about what their fellow employees do is invaluable. When everyone knows how each job/position on your team fits together, your team can accomplish so much more. Its best when they meet in their respective offices/cubicles.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

Jacobwith will show you five powerful and simple “must do’s” to cut through year-end fundraising noise, help increase your Giving Tuesday success, and increase donor retention. I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. The thing that I’ll tell you is donor retention is what we’re talking about.

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