Recruitment of fundraisers in USA moves from 'worrisome to critical'
Howard Lake | 19 June 2005 | News
The New York Times reports that US nonprofits, and those in New York in particular, are facing major difficulties in recruiting and retaining fundraisers.
Focusing on the failure by Greenwich Library in Greenwich, Connecticut, to recruit a $40,000 salary fundraiser, the New York Times article reports the findings of the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) on the difficulties of recruitment. The membership body said that the national turnover rate for fundraisers in the United States was 25%. In Canada, it was even higher, at 34%.
The recruitment difficulties continue despite a 9% rise from 2002 to 2003 in the average salary for a fundraiser, which in 2003 stood at $71,470.
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About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.