https://bloomerang.co/resources/webinars/ Drawing on research, Mazarine Treyz will highlight some ways to get unstuck and improve your employee retention rates, even when you’re strapped for time, money and bodies.

1. This one thing
keeps you
stuck
Presenter: Mazarine Treyz

2. About the Speaker
Mazarine Treyz
Author of The Wild Woman's Guide
to Fundraising, and two other books.
Creator of popular fundraising blog
with 50,000 monthly readers.
She founded the Nonprofit
Leadership Summit in 2016, and has
taught over 15,000 nonprofit leaders
how to fundraise more effectively
since 2009.
Mazarine Treyz loves to help people
take their nonprofits to the next level.

3. What is Keeping You Stuck?
Is it...
Your Fundraising
Processes?
Your donor database?
Your Communications plan?
Your staff?
Your brand?
Your history?
Your leader?

4. What is Keeping You Stuck?
It’s...
Not Keeping
YOUR PEOPLE!

5. New Research from Bloomerang and Wild Woman
Fundraising-
We asked
over 1,100
nonprofit
professionals-
How happy
are you at
work?

6. Here’s the thing.
Our nonprofit workplace cultures are broken.
We have so many barriers to doing our work well.
Because of super jobs, we have way more work, we have to make
more decisions than ever, PLUS
Because of at-will, we’re worrying about getting fired, we try to work
harder. So THEN
We don’t take breaks- few of us work our proper hours.
With few real metrics and systems, we are constantly busy, but at the
end of the day, we might still say, “What the heck did I get done?”

7. The mantra is:“Work like Crazy Then Crash”

8. Question:
What’s the turnover rate
at your nonprofit right now?

9. The average tenure of a fundraiser in
a nonprofit is between 12-18 months
in the US, and in Canada, it can be as
low as 6 months.
UNFORTUNATELY OUR PEOPLE ARE
LEAVING. QUICKLY.

10. According to our research:

11. According to our research:

12. According to our research:

13. We are overlooking people
currently employed in our
organizations when we look to
make an executive level hire.
People get passed over, and
they leave.
UNFORTUNATELY OUR PEOPLE ARE
LEAVING. QUICKLY.

14. A national nonprofit CEO is
worried because she sees a lot of
her best workers all over the
country leaving the sector and
going to for-profits.
Why? Because they offer better
working conditions, benefits and
higher salaries.
UNFORTUNATELY OUR PEOPLE ARE
LEAVING. QUICKLY.

15. Have you asked people if they have more
than one job?

16. Have you looked at pay equity in your
organization?

17. Have you looked at pay equity in your
organization?

18. Have you looked at pay equity in your
organization?

19. Have you looked at pay equity in your
organization? (From the Race to Lead
study)

20. Have you looked at pay equity in your
organization? (From the Race to Lead
study)

21. You think you can ignore this fact?

22. Here's the
proof
FACT:The cost of one fundraiser leaving
is $50,000

23. FACT:The cost of yearly attrition is hundreds of
thousands
$396,432

24. Here's the proof
FACT:The money you MAKE by keeping your
Staff = $500,000+

25. These last few summers, British Columbia, Alberta,
Saskatchewan, Oregon, Washington and
California were covered in smoke from
forest fires.
Why? Because of global warming, and budget
cuts, no one was doing forest maintenance and
tree thinning.

26. What is more important
than fighting a fire?

27. Preventing the fire in the first place.

28. What are your current benefits?

29. What do people want? According to our research:

30. What do people want? According to the Race to
Lead study:

31. What would make people stay? According to our
findings...

32. That means you have to
work on keeping your
people.
BUT HOW?
IF your competitive advantage is your people...

33. TRY DECENT WORK

34. What is Decent Work?
Ontario Nonprofit Network has identified 7 elements of
decent work as a starting point:
> Opportunities for development and advancement
> Equality and rights at work
> Culture and leadership
> Employment opportunities
> Fair income
> Health and retirement benefits
> Stable employment

35. Culture and Leadership
1. Be Proactive. Take initiative and responsibility for
results.
Ask- What’s a problem I can be proactive about today?

36. Opportunities for Development and
Advancement
2. Begin with the end in mind. Always know WHY you’re
doing something.
Ask and get clear: Where do I see myself in a year? In 5
years? In 10?
How can I nurture my colleagues
to be where THEY want to be
in 5 years?

37. You can’t talk your way out of this problem.
You could guess what’s going on
You could TELL people what’s wrong…
OR… you could go for mutual exploration.
You can LISTEN FIRST…
And talk later.

38. Equality and rights at work
3. Look for ways to show
respect and strive for equality.
Seek first to understand,
emphasize with others and
hear their perspective before
sharing your own.
Ask- Who needs me to listen
to them today?

39. Employment opportunities
4. Find the strengths of
your team- and leverage
their gifts and resources
-and see if you can
promote them based on
these aptitudes.
Ask- Who loves to do
something that isn’t part
of their job?
LET EVERYONE LEAD
THE PIECE THEY DO
WELL.
Your Future CEO could be
hiding in plain sight.

40. Culture and Development
5. Sharpen the knife of
your mind- and always
work to get better.
Ask – How can I renew
my mind and
energy this week?

41. Fair income, Stable Work, and Benefits
6. Are we providing a fair and living wage to our
workers? Are we at-will? Or do we have more worker
protections? Can we offer more benefits?
Ask – If not, how can we do better?

42. Acknowledge invisible systems of power
With a culture built on the 3 pillars of white
supremacy, (Constant War, Slavery/Capitalism,
Genocide/Colonialism) we have recreated this
dynamic in our nonprofits.

43. How to keep your good people
Provide higher amounts per hour and lower
hours worked.
Provide more worker protections (superseding
at-will) in our employment agreement.
Offer cost of living wage increases each year.
Offer more vacation time. Allow people to
make mistakes.
Offer better titles, and a professional
development stipend.
Build trust deliberately.

44. If you want to learn more about Decent Work
Ontario Nonprofit Network
has more about their Decent
Work Initiative here:
http://theonn.ca
And if you want to do more for
Decent Work in the USA,
LET’S TALK!
Book a call and let’s chat!:
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