The board plays a significant role in an association’s success. Association boards are complex, as policies and bylaws might require approval by the membership. Nonprofits typically focus on their missions, and though associations are also mission-driven, they are more membership-focused and provide services and products to their members. Association board members are often pulled in several directions dealing with the stressors associated with their full-time…

The gap between skills possessed by employees and those needed to function going forward has widened since 2021, and executives are increasingly concerned their employees do not have the right skills to execute business strategy, according to a new study. Nearly half (49%) of learning and development professionals say executives have doubts about the current skillsets of their employees. That’s up from 40% in 2021,…

By Richard Levey The Coalition of Red Cross Unions is negotiating with Red Cross management to avoid labor disruptions at the end of May, when a current contract extension with blood services workers expires. The Coalition, which represents 3,000 workers within 10 labor groups at the American Red Cross, is seeking a variety of changes to overall staffing levels, workers’ current compensation and healthcare coverage.…

* Editor’s Note: This column was written by A.J. Steinberg, CFRE, and drawn from her session at AFP ICON titled: “How to Lead Volunteer Committees To Success” Are you suffering from volunteer committee burnout? Do you feel the frustration of working with committees far outweighs the benefits your organization receives from them? If so, you are not alone.  Many nonprofit professionals feel discouraged when trying…

The gap between skills possessed by employees and those needed to function going forward has widened since 2021, and executives are increasingly concerned their employees do not have the right skills to execute on strategy. Nearly half (49%) of learning and development professionals say executives have doubts about the current skillsets of their employees. That’s up from 40% in 2021, and is a level likely…

A movement toward more salary transparency will get a significant boost when a new regulation in the nation’s largest city goes into effect, with similar measures advancing around the county. An amendment to the New York City Human Rights Law (NYCHRL) will require that employers — including nonprofits — include the minimum and maximum starting salary for any “advertised job, promotion or transfer opportunity,” effective…

You’ve probably suspected this but more than one-quarter (29%) of employees are actively looking for a new job at a different organization. While that figure is down 33% from last year, such a decrease is to be expected since 21% of people switched jobs during the past 12 months. Those most likely to jump are male millennials who have been with an organization three to…

Connecticut Nonprofit to Sell Building Housing Shared Nonprofits Workspace The Corporation for Independent Living (CIL) will put its Hartford, Conn.-based Atlantic Works building, which houses more than two dozen tenants, most of which are nonprofits, up for sale. An initial asking price has not yet been set, Kent Schwendy, President and CEO of CIL, told The NonProfit Times. The Atlantic Works building, which was formerly…

All a nonprofit needs is passion, right? Well, it helps, but a balance sheet in the black never hurts either. Deirdre Maloney, the executive director of the Colorado AIDS Project from 2001 to 2008, tackles this fallacy in her book, “The Mission Myth: Building Nonprofit Momentum Through Better Business.” Now the founder and president of Momentum in San Diego, Calif., Maloney offers a variety of…