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Short-Staffed? 14 Practical Ways Nonprofit Leaders Can Approach This Issue

Forbes Leadership

To ease the burden of staff members, leaders have to implement strategies that make employee well-being a priority.

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Leveraging Fractional Staff To Confront Common Nonprofit Challenges

Forbes Leadership

Fractional staffing is an alternative model that allows organizations to engage skillsets instead of hires.

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Changemaker Interview: Chris Chancey, CEO, Amplio Recruiting

Forbes Leadership

A serial-entrepreneur (BBQ tours, wedding planning), minister (thesis on the theology of work) and nonprofit professional, Chris Chancey collected a lifetime of experience before taking the audacious step of starting Amplio Recruiting, a staffing agency dedicated to placing refugees in jobs.

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I don’t want to participate in my office’s steps challenge, returning to a job I criticized, and more

Alison Green

But we are a nonprofit, and I don’t know the ins and outs of that, and how that works out with what amounts to volunteers. In my exit interview, I was very open about my criticism of how the company was mishandling the period of growth in regards to staffing. Any advice? Talk to the conductor or manager of the group. I accepted.

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Does a Four-Day Workweek Work?

Mind Tools Team Management

In June this year, the nonprofit organization, “ 4 Day Week Global ” launched a six-month pilot program trialing a four-day workweek. He said, “Any organization could make it work, by being clever about staffing patterns. What if… we had a four-day workweek? And still got paid the same?

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company won’t do anything about a horrible coworker, eating tiny lunches in a group, and more

Alison Green

This is especially frustrating if we are short-staffed. Work won’t pay for our travel to a weekend location I work at a small nonprofit and everyone on staff is being asked to work a couple of weekends each during the next few months at an off-site location that can only be accessed by ferry. I’m sorry you’re having to deal with this.

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How To Calculate Total Compensation

Zenefits

Employers should factor in all flexible working arrangements when determining staffing needs and costs. 403(b) (a 401(k) alternative for nonprofits). Employers don’t have to pay employees for these benefits, but employees may value these highly. Employees, again, should factor how much they plan to not work.