Is it Time for a Nonprofit Workers Union?
(Image: SEIU Local 1, Creative Commons) Many nonprofit employees have experienced it before: management justifies cutting overhead costs—including a host of employee benefits—in order to free up resources for programmatic spending. Organizational leadership often perceives their workers as mission-driven as opposed to profit-driven, an exact corollary…
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How Nonprofit Management Should Treat Pro-Labor Millennials
Previously on Nonprofit Pro Media, we discussed the economic distress experienced by millennials, and how their financial plight has changed public opinion on labor organizing. Unions experienced a precipitous drop-off in membership from the 1970s to the present. The public’s understanding and appreciation of labor…
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Millennials, Labor Unions, and Nonprofits
It’s no secret: millennials are earning less than their parents. Some analyses put the decline in earnings around 20 percent. This is particularly debilitating for a generation that also possesses more student debt than its predecessors. The reasons for the millennial wage slump are complicated….
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Five Steps to Securing a Millennial Nonprofit Board Member
On the topic of millennial nonprofit board members, organizations are all talk no action. Boards toss around questions: How do we engage millennials? At what price point will our event seem attractive enough for millennials to come? Where are all the young people? The millennial…
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Fundraising Takeaways from 2015
(2015 takeaway: Millennials are the next great giving generation, and they donate via mobile technology.) After 5 straight years of growth in the fundraising world (2014 topped previous records, pulling in $358.38 billion in philanthropic dollars, and 2015 will likely be even bigger), things are…
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