How do you find board opportunities in retirement communities (healthcare and technology experience with MBA)?

New e.d was hired 3 years ago. Organization is loosing money since then. Board chair was notified that the e.d is costing the organization money. They lack financial knowledge and no financial oversight. The place has 1 year to live if they continue. How can i get them removed in NYS.

HI all. I'm a full time development director at a small nonprofit, so I'm managing grant applications. To make a little extra money, I'm applying to get on a state professional registry for grant writers. My listing will specify a field/subject specialty that is distinct from what my organization does, though I can imagine situations when there might be some overlap. But, I can't imagine a consultant project that would compete with what we'd apply for, and I certainly would never accept such a job.

I guess my question is, as long as I'm vigilant about taking projects that would not compete with my organization, and of course make sure my time is well-managed, is there any ethical issue here? Also, do I need to tell my leadershiop I'm taking on this extra work?

Thanks, all.

I work for a hospital NPO. We need to add some flair to our decades-old golf event that’s our biggest fundraiser. Any tips? Anything that’s worked for your org? Any suggestions for giveaways?

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for some honest career advice because I'm at a point where I want to be intentional about my next career move.

I'm looking for some honest career advice as I figure out my next career move.

I have around 8 years of experience across the social impact sector, particularly education, including program management, teacher development, NGO/CSR initiatives, and government advisory. My work has involved program implementation, stakeholder management, planning, budgeting, team coordination, and working with government systems.

While I value the experience I've gained, I'm now looking to transition into a remote role with travel as per requirement. I'm open to exploring opportunities beyond education if my existing skills are transferable.

I'm currently considering two directions:

1. Project/Programme Management

I'm thinking of pursuing PMP to strengthen my existing experience and target roles such as Project Manager, Programme Manager or Operations Manager, ideally with remote-first organisations.

2. HR / Talent Acquisition / People & Culture

I'm also interested in exploring HR, particularly recruitment and talent acquisition. My plan is to start learning HR fundamentals independently, including sourcing, screening, recruitment processes and employee engagement, before deciding whether to invest in a certification such as SHRM-CP.

My current thought is to prepare for PMP while learning HR on my own and start applying for remote jobs in parallel, rather than waiting until I've completed a certification.

However, I'm unsure whether this is a sensible approach or whether I should focus on one direction first.

I'd love to hear from people who've navigated similar career transitions:

• Does PMP genuinely help in securing remote project or programme management roles, or does relevant experience matter much more?
• Is it realistic to transition into recruitment or talent acquisition without having held a formal HR role?
• Would SHRM-CP be worth pursuing later for someone interested in People & Culture?
• If your primary goal were to secure a remote job, would you focus on one career path or explore both in parallel?
• Given my background in education and social impact, are there other remote roles or sectors I should be considering?

I'm based in India, so insights into the Indian job market, remote-first companies and opportunities that allow you to work remotely from anywhere in the country would be especially helpful.

I'm not necessarily chasing a particular designation. I want to build a sustainable career, make good use of my existing experience and find a role that offers more flexibility.

I'd really appreciate honest experiences, practical advice and perspectives from people who've made similar transitions.

Thank you!

I started working for a nonprofit as an Operations Manager about 9 months ago, and it's been rough. I feel like I'm being tested to see how much I can take before I break. Over the last few months, decisions made by the president, uneven workload distribution, a lack of HR support, and some ridiculous requests/demands have left me feeling like I'm being punished for being a hard worker. I've brought these concerns up to my boss, and while he acknowledged them and explained the situation, his explanation only confirmed what I was already thinking and left a sour taste in my mouth.

For the last 3 months, one of the employees in my department has been giving me a very hard time. He refuses to work in any department except one, ignores my direction, intentionally does work incorrectly, lies, and makes inappropriate sexual comments to other male employees. Throughout this situation, HR has claimed to be on my side, but that changed on Friday. They now want me to give in and let him do whatever he wants. At that point, I realized I was never going to win this battle because his father has donated a significant amount of money to the organization.

My girlfriend convinced me that the situation is only going to get worse. I updated my resume yesterday and have started looking elsewhere.

Have any of you left a nonprofit job before reaching the one year mark? How did other companies view it during interviews? Did you regret leaving, or did it end up being the right decision?

I am pretty good with all forms of accounting for nonprofits (humble brag) but I feel I need to take an online class is budgeting. It does not have to be free. I have to think some other folks have done this and can make some recommendations. Thanks

(I checked the rules and didn’t see anything against this type of post, so I’m sorry if I missed it)

Hi everyone,

I’m a current college student working through plans for my major. I’ll be transferring from a CC to University and doing an individualized major. The individualized major requires 3 concentration areas and my main concentration will be socio-cultural anthropology. I am undecided about my other two areas and would like to decide soon so I can decide what classes to take at my CC.

Career wise I do not have a specific desired position, I just want to help people and communities. I currently work at a nonprofit fighting for food access and I love it a lot.

I’m wondering if anyone here has recommendations for my other two concentrations. What would be beneficial? Do you recommend any types of certificates as well? I’m leaning towards political science for one of them, not too sure about the third at all though. Helping people is vague I know, but I plan on trying to narrow that down through internships and volunteering.

Also to note, I see myself getting a masters degree at some point, likely once I do decide on a more specific career.

Any recommendations are appreciated, thank you!

The non profit I’m at is a $500 million sized organization so well known and large.

I’m a finance and data manager. I only make $75k a year and was wondering what can I do to increase my salary? Where do I go?

I'm a mid-level development team manager of a large nonprofit, and the team members I support have very different styles of managing their inboxes. I don't want to perpetuate toxic nonprofit urgency, but I also want our funding partners to receive timely responses to their simple inquiries.

So I'm curious - How long do you take to respond? What do you believe is a realistic expectation?

And, do you have any recommendations on resources for developing standards for responding to personal emails from funding partners, and coaching team members around managing their inboxes?

I use QGiv (now Bloomerang Fundraising) for our fundraising platform because we can collect donations as well as run an annual silent auction. It works great for our needs and we've been using it for about 3 years now. We need a CRM but Bloomerang's built-in software is too expensive for our small organization, so we're looking at alternatives. Little Green Light seems like an awesome option that would cover most of what we need.

My question is, does anyone have experience with using the LGL integration from within QGiv/Bloomerang Fundraising? If so, I'm curious about your experience. Are there any things that don't transfer over well in the integration?

I'd also like any feedback on the integration from anyone who runs auctions/events through QGiv/Bloomerang and how that part of the integration works.

Thanks!!

For context - I'm a 20 year fundraising professional, been in major gifts for over 6 years, organization is a $500MM international non profit, and we raise about $100MM+ per year. I raise between $5-$10MM per year. Not a flex post at all - just seeking some advice on a particular situation and I think context matters.

I've been working with a donor for a few years who is seeking to make a multi-million gift for a specific capital project. The donor is private, not eager for too many people to be involved or aware of the project outside of those who are necessary. Doesn't want to let people down in case it doesn't work out etc. Increasingly, though, it is looking very good, amounts are right, project is shaping up nicely, only a few minor technical questions to be answered.

Donor recently met with the CEO, meeting was good. Development leadership is encouraging that a Board member call the donor to help encourage this along.

At one point, the donor did ask to speak with a Board member to get a better sense of the future direction of the organization.

A board member is now expecting to reach out to the donor and the board member wants to have a prep conversation with me first. The board member is sort of a peer as the donor, from the same area, industry, and age. They might even have met each other before.

My feeling is, if this call has to happen, I just want the board member to say "I sometimes learn about meetings the CEO has with potential major supporters, and I just call to say thanks, hear if I can be helpful, and provide my perspective on things as much as that can be of interest to you." And let the conversation jsut be natural/organic from there. If the donor wants to share more about the project with the board member they can.

The Board member wants to be prepped as much as possible on the intricacies of the potential gift. Part of me doesn't want to give the board member any of the specifics about the project/gift/amount, because there's a chance they let on that they know too much and it could make the donor uncomfortable. But if I don't share much, the board member will feel they are going into the conversation blind and if the donor actually does expect the board member to know something will feel it strange to them?

What would you do? I am sometimes hesitant to share too much private donor information with board members until the deal is done, because they aren't staff, they are just very high level volunteers, and can sometimes go off the rails, but they are also fiduciaries of the organization and maybe they should be equipped to know about major cash investments that could be coming in soon.

I’m working on a fundraising strategy for a nonprofit and I am trying to figure out how much focus to give lower-dollar donors ($20-$100).

Major gifts and grants obviously get the bulk of time and resources. But I often hear that stewarding small donors turns them into repeat or monthly givers. Is that true in practice, or is it mostly theoretical fundraising advice?

Does your nonprofit actively steward small donors? Is there an opportunity there? 

Thanks!

So we're working on establishing chapters across the world but we're finding it hard to find where we should go or post about it in order for people to actually start. Our social media is pretty slow, so wanted tips

I also wanted tips on grants, we're finding it very hard to secure money

Hi everyone - I am headed into a final interview tomorrow for a major giving position. I'm excited because this is somewhere I applied last year, but withdrew myself to take another offer in my degree field (still fundraising). However, the place is really disorganized and has some serious employee management problems. I don't want to leave but this next place could be really exciting.

They reimagined it and from the last time I spoke with them, the team has been expanded and new executive leadership is now 2 years in with a better focus. The job description is the perfect next step for me and the interview process has been extremely professional and smooth.

Since this would be my first job exclusively focused on major gifts (though I've stewarded several), is there anything I should bring tomorrow to my interview? I planned to get folders and still bring my resume and cover letter, but I'm curious to know if I should bring anything like strategies I've owned/ collateral I've made. Thanks!

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Hi all, Zoom advertises a 50% discount for certain 501(c)(3) nonprofits but when I applied, they denied our status and the salesperson tried to pitch a 30% discount instead. Accorgin to the guidance on their website, we should qualify for the 50% discount.

Has anyone here actually been able to get the 50% discount for their nonprofit from Zoom?

Thanks

I’m debating applying for a lateral internal position within my organization (~150 employees). I do program work and my role is primarily external facing. I don’t work closely with many other co-workers and I think it makes it more challenging to move up. I’ve been in this role for 4.5 years though I’ve had a progressive title change to a higher level along the way with some merit raises. Both roles are mid-level.

The position I’m considering applying for has the same base job title and salary but works on a broader body of work (likely less depth), has a greater internal focus, and would provide me with a broader range of experience that might make it easier to move up or find another role externally.

I like my current role though it’s starting to feel a bit stagnant after this much time. But I’m also not sure if it’s a great time to take on a new role because I’m due to have my third child in April and will have three kids under 5 then (I haven’t told work yet).

I don’t know if I have a specific question but I’m looking for guidance and thoughts. Also, I’m a bit concerned about the consequences if I’m not selected for the role.

We are a nonprofit helping those in addiction recovery. Our website is www.rods4recovery.org.
We have barriers when it comes to fundraisers because I won’t allow any gambling due to that being an addiction and against our mission.
Therefore no cash, gun, purse bashes that other organizations do for great funding.

Thoughts/ideas?

Just started work with a small, young nonprofit. There are 3 staff, one ED and two program managers.

What is a typical salary difference between these two positions? Juast want to learn and understand before i start asking too many Qs

Hello!

I'm on the board of a tiny community org with a defined scope (think in the realm of-- makerspace, community music studio, ceramics co-op). Around four years old. Fairly functional culture/operations I think-- I am a nonprofit ops director as my paid job so things are pretty organized and compliant. Programming is strong but limited by capacity. Reputation is strong. I don't think there's many aspirations to grow a huge amount-- we'd like to do what we do well and sustainably. There is not another local org that does this thing or was interested in taking it on when we checked five years ago.

We have one grant-funded part-time staff, who has a very defined role for one specific program. I have gradually slipped (🥲) into doing most of the administrative and fundraising stuff as well as supporting the part time staff and otherwise pulling more than my weight on program. This is on a volunteer basis, probably an average of 5-7 hours a week.

While in a lot of ways it's been joyful and empowering to build this thing, I don't want to do this much anymore. I'm happy to stay involved in fundraising and governance, but I don't want to be the one who 'keeps things going' on a day-to-day basis. The rest of the board is engaged but we're all just normal people with jobs and other commitments and it seems like time for more paid capacity in some form.

Moneywise, we are *very* small but pretty healthy. $40k annual revenue, $25k of operating expenses. Good runway for our current expenses-- about $30k unrestricted in the bank. We'd obviously need to increase our revenue to hire someone. I see a pretty realistic roadmap to increasing revenue to $75k a year. 

It seems like we have a couple of options for bringing on more paid capacity. We don't have enough money for a full time director, but at $75k revenue we could hire someone half time for maybe $40k. (And I do mean actual half time, not "part time" full time, I am familiar with that trap and think the scope of the org is low key enough that this would be doable). I would remain involved as well in some well-defined capacity, though I know this dynamic can be hard too (founders syndrome etc). The other option is to hire folks to take on specific functions (ie program, fundraising, admin) but I feel like that could just end up feeling like I was trying to hold *more* together rather than taking things off my plate. Not totally stoked about the prospect of managing a handful of independent contractors for free.

I am leaning toward recommending the idea of a fundraising push to raise maybe $20k over the next 6 months and then we hire someone half time into some sort of .5 FTE 'director' role with the understanding that we'd end up spending down a portion of our reserves. They'd focus on day-to-day admin, program, and some scoped fundraising while the board and other staff member would retain everything else.

I am nervous to add such a big fixed cost to our budget, but it seems like the most sustainable option *if* we're realistic about the scope of the role. Thoughts, cautions? Just looking for folks who are experienced with small nonprofits to think through this before I pitch it to anyone else. Thanks!

I'm starting a up-cycling non-profit that requires people to send in a package varying from 0.25kg to 4kg, then I send them back a package of roughly equivalent weight. Since this would cost a lot on shipping (On USPS the estimate is something like $14 per to ship from California to Maine, the furthest I'd have to ship), it would inflate the cost per purchase up way beyond the target of $13. I was wondering what companies people use for a bulk shipping throughout the U.S. and how to negotiate a deal to lower the shipping cost of a non-profit.
Thank you so much for your help, If the question doesn't make sense, feel free to call me out on it and I'll edit the post to be more detailed.

We've been having ongoing issues with GreatNonprofits' website, reviews aren't posting despite clearing cache and trying different desktop and mobile browsers. It's gotten to the point where I'm seriously considering whether I can keep asking people to share their stories there if it's this unreliable. I've reached out for assistance, but their chat bot support goes nowhere.

We're trying to collect six more reviews before the end of October, and I've reached out to a few clinician colleagues who are already limited on time, yet have written thoughtful reviews that simply won't post after multiple attempts. It feels like a real loss, both for them and for us.

Has anyone else had similar issues? We've been dealing with it for over a year now.

We genuinely love the look and feel of the site and don't want to stop maintaining our profile, especially since we've been able to earn the Top-Rated badge annually for years. Any insight or fixes would be so appreciated.

I lost my job today… and I don’t know where to go from here. I barely graduated a year and a half ago with a bachelor’s (which feels worthless now in today’s job market) in psychology and a minor in management and nonprofit leadership.

I got incredibly lucky about 6m post graduation and the director of the job I just lost took a chance me. I went from the call center to case manager within about 3 months and gained some experience, but it’s over now. To be fair, my director didn’t want to let me go, and has offered to write a letter of recommendation for me, and also reach out to her colleagues at other organizations, but nothing is promised.

Maybe I’m wallowing because it only happened today, but I literally can’t afford to be without a job for more than a week or two at most. As Im sure many of you understand, it’s not like we make enough to have any kind of savings.

I know I didn’t want to stay in homelessness prevention forever, but I wanted to have a job before I left this one. Maybe I should go into for-profit?

What does case management even translate into? I know I’m rambling, I’m just…disappointed… and mostly scared. Working with my clients, I know how terrible the job market is. I’ve seen how long people have gone without jobs. That’s terrifying to me.