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Five ways to retain quality employees at your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit employees are leaving at a rapid rate for a variety of reasons, including low pay and benefits packages, lack of long-term career opportunities, poor work-life balance, and even faulty leadership. Organizations have found success in this strategy because it places value on the employee’s work-life balance. You are not alone.

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Walking the Tight Rope: Finding Work-Life Balance in the Nonprofit Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

There are people who think of work-life balance in a Utopian way — where work and life responsibilities are lines in the Zen garden of life. I asked nonprofit professionals about their views on work-life balance and how it effects their day-to-day lives. Want to learn more about work-life balance? Laci Lester.

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Priceless Board Members

ASU Lodestar Center

He mentioned business CEOs, lawyers, university presidents, HR professionals, marketing gurus, etc. Other Board Members feel that their knowledge base or background is sufficient because they are bringing new skills to the organization. Jessie is a National Board Member for YNPN (ynpn.org) and YNPNsd (ynpnsandiego.org).

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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?

ASU Lodestar Center

Fernanda Torres Maqueda is a native of Phoenix, Arizona and has over 5 years experience in the nonprofit sector. in Life Science and a Masters in Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University. She is the Sr. Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona, a program of the ASU Lodestar Center. She holds a B.S

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

ASU Lodestar Center

With keynote speakers Travis Manzione (Director of Assessment Tools for The Center for Effective Philanthropy ) and Charles Best (Founder and CEO of DonorsChoose.org ), and a panel representing local nonprofits and funders (including Ear Candy , Phoenix Youth at Risk , SRP , and Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust 5comments: Kayla said.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid. Despite such knowledge, it was the difference in cultural norms that rocked me to my core.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

Manager of Knowledge Resources ASU Lodestar Center Welcome to Research Friday! The millionaire isnt compelled to write the big checks because he or she has temporarily sworn off the high life and survived on a tight budget. Suite 500, Phoenix, AZ 85004-0691 602.496.0500 An academic unit of the College of Public Programs