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April is National Volunteer Month. Do you know where your volunteers are? 

Candid

So, what can organizations do to better engage and retain volunteers in 2025? So, what can nonprofits do to recruit these essential volunteersand retain them? Proven strategies for engaging and retaining volunteers. Recruiting and retaining volunteers is a year-round endeavor beyond National Volunteer Month. in 2022-23.

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Proven strategies for engaging and retaining volunteers

Candid

Here I’ll highlight the key factors Ive seen in my volunteer engagement roles over the past 20 years and suggest practical tips for retaining volunteers. Financial factors can include the higher cost of education and growing student debt, stagnant wages, the rising cost of living, and volatile inflation rates.

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Bill Conway's $1 Billion Plan to End the Nursing Shortage

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

The co-founder of the Carlyle Group is using big education gifts to shore up the nursing profession. So far he’s supported student aid, new buildings, efforts to recruit and retain faculty, and more at 22 nursing schools, including Catholic University. By Maria Di Mento WASHINGTON, D.C.

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5 Best Practices for Nonprofit Employee Onboarding

Ann Green's Nonprofit

However, recruiting and retaining these essential team members is not always easy. Plus, you can use your nonprofits LMS to streamline many other processes and activities, including upskilling employees, onboarding volunteers, and educating board members. Use these onboarding best practices to set your new hires up for lasting success.

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6 Tips to Retain Volunteers

Blackbaud

It’s imperative that you recruit a strong volunteer base and, more important, retain volunteers by valuing their time, effort, and skills. If you’re ready to make a plan to retain your volunteers, start with these six tips. million people volunteered for a nonprofit organization in 2021, contributing $122.9 billion in economic value.

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What are Matching Grants and Why You Should Want Them

GrantNews

Focus areas include education, recreation, health and human services, arts and culture, and youth and community services. There are grants to eligible nonprofits, municipalities, and Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) for the development of facilities primarily focused on the arts, sciences, and humanities.

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4 Top Donor Retention Strategies to Keep Your Year-End Donors

CauseVox

From these stats, you would have retained 40% of your donors, and lost 60%. The Art Of The Thank You The first piece in any donor retention strategy (especially one for retaining year-end donors) is the thank you. Educate Your Donors Keep donors informed about WHY their gift matters. That means its pretty important.

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