Camerata collective

There's a talent retention problem hiding in plain sight inside many nonprofits, and it has nothing to do with salary, benefits, or even workload. It has to do with strategy. Or the absence of it. Your top performers, the ones you can least afford to lose, are carrying a quiet frustration. They may never say it in a staff meeting or a performance review. But deep down, they need something most executive leaders don’t provide: evidence that the organization they've given their

All nonprofits at some point in their lifecycle go through an identity crisis. The mission goes from deep and focused to wide and spread out. Rather than refocusing on who they are serving and why they exist, they start chasing the next shiny object or exciting new program. Maybe they have a board member who has a pet project they feel passionate about, and it's only tangentially related to the mission. Slowly, the organization drifts away from their mission, and falls into t