Editor's Note: Looking for current information on compensation in the Canadian nonprofit sector? Check out the 2013 Canadian Nonprofit Sector Salary & Benefits Study. When nonprofits and charities consider employee remuneration, limited revenues and smaller operating budgets often hamstring them....
Recent national media reports of executive-level salaries in the charitable sector have painted an incomplete picture of managerial compensation. They would have Canadians believe that those who work in the nonprofit sector are prone to receiving disproportionately large salaries, largely...
Retention has become the cause célèbre for many organizations. With a particular focus on the younger generation, ideas abound on how to create a working environment that is welcoming, engaging and supportive. An engaged staff is a satisfied one, after...
The buzz in the nonprofit sector right now is all about "donor engagement". This makes perfect sense, because the fiscal realities of government reduction in program spending; salary restraints and budget shortfalls require decision-makers to bridge funding shortages. Determining how...
People are an organization’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the mission is to raise awareness on an issue or to provide food for the hungry. An organization is only as good as the people who are doing...
I just finished reading a book entitled Re-engage: How America's Best Places to Work Inspire Extra Effort Through Extraordinary Engagement. It purports to point out the ways organizations can recreate engaged workplaces once the economy improves. It starts out well,...
It’s no surprise that employees in the nonprofit sector are generally paid less than their contemporaries in the private and public sectors. While we’d like to believe the sector’s employees are equally motivated by salary as they are by the...
In our efforts to ensure we are matching wage and benefit levels to others in the industry and remaining competitive on the salary front, we often forget that daily recognition and rewards influence the morale and engagement of our workforce...
In our organization, we've been conducting exit interviews for about two years. When departing employees are asked why they're leaving, fully three quarters state that they've been offered more money elsewhere. But I know that our pay is competitive within...
When an employee leaves an organization they incur both indirect and direct costs. Direct costs include separation, vacancy, replacement, and training expenses. In addition, there is a performance differential: The difference in productivity between those who leave and their replacements....
