# Recruitment of fundraisers in USA moves from 'worrisome to critical'

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/19/recruitment-fundraisers-usa-moves-039worrisome-critical039/
- Published: 2005-06-19T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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%.

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recruiting and retaining good fundraisers is clearly not solely a UK problem.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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