Nonprofit HR
Measure What You Value: Designing a Values-based Performance Appraisal System
Developing and sustaining a motivated, productive, and highly engaged workforce means your employees must be measured on how they demonstrate the organization’s values.
Supporting Caregiver Employees in the Nonprofit Sector
With more workers than ever doubling as caregivers, nonprofits must find new, caring ways to support them in the workplace.
Performance Appraisals Are Broken — Here’s How Managers Can Fix the Process
Neither supervisors nor employees think that the current process for performance appraisals is working. In this article, our author uses her experience as a trainer and coach with more than 2,000 managers, direct service staff, board members, and other volunteers to present a 6-pointed, human-centered approach that supervisors can use to fix the performance appraisal process.
Working Through Grief: How to Build a Supportive Workplace
Borrowing from her own experience of losing her husband from cancer, the author presents five strategies to help employees work through grief.
Ask Rita: I’ve Never Fired Anyone Before — and Now I Have To!
How to handle termination of employment at their nonprofit properly and with due regard for all concerned.
Working from Home: Sidebar on Legal Issues for Nonprofits
Take these guidelines into consideration when adopting alternative work arrangements for your staff.
Top Ten Questions from Job Seekers… Answered!
Search consultant and volunteer leader Sally Carlson shares something different about how to find a nonprofit job right now.
Health Insurance: A Bit of Good COBRA News
Personal finance guru Steve Zimmerman brings us some welcome good news that may help you keep health insurance if you’re laid off.
Advice for Servicemembers and Veterans Looking at Nonprofit Jobs
Keira Havens makes a case for nonprofits to servicemembers and veterans thinking about going to work in nonprofits.
When You Lose Your Health Insurance Coverage
Health care is a society-wide crisis as well as a personal, individual one, and there aren’t ready solutions on either level.