SHARE Charlotte’s Nonprofit Leader Survey Results: Apparo’s Role in Alleviating Nonprofit Pressures
Author: Kim Lanphear, Apparo CEO
Apparo’s wonderful community partners at SHARE Charlotte recently released an important Nonprofit Leader Survey, in partnership with the CELC (Charlotte Executive Leadership Council). Findings from this survey provide significant insights into how the community can best support the work of organizations who serve those in need.
Highlights of the 2024 Nonprofit Leaders Survey include:
- Three-quarters of nonprofit leaders are experiencing high staff turnover due to inadequate funding for salaries. These hard-to-fill vacancies lead to hiring people who often lack experience or leave quickly for higher-paying jobs.
- Over half of the nonprofit leaders are concerned about staff burnout, while nearly three-quarters believe they and their teams could benefit from currently unattainable well-being support like meditation and coaching.
- More than a third of the respondents need office space and nearly two-thirds cannot find adequate event space.
- Just under two-thirds of the leaders would like more opportunities to collaborate.
As a nonprofit focused on amplifying other nonprofits’ effectiveness through technology, at Apparo, we are pleased to see these needs so clearly articulated and communicated for broad community awareness.
Fortunately, Apparo is here to help alleviate some of the pressures highlighted in the survey. Specifically; turnover and burnout: Apparo helps nonprofits increase awareness of and build skills in all areas needed to improve their business processes through technology. Whether organizations face challenges in the realm of social media, HR, finance, fundraising, customer databases, or other areas, Apparo has a program to help. This support directly improves the well-being of employees, by making their jobs more manageable and freeing time spent on administrative work so they can focus on the mission-related tasks that drive the love of their nonprofit work. Apparo helps nonprofits become more mobile-friendly so staff has more time flexibility on the job. Our programs make the work less stressful and more rewarding by ensuring that nonprofit teams have access to stronger technology tools and processes.
Additionally, opportunities to collaborate. Apparo is, at our core, a connector. We connect nonprofits to partners across a range of needs- consulting, tech, services, tech tools, space, Board member candidates, and skilled volunteers. Along the way, we create diverse ecosystems of new connections. As we introduce companies and their employees to nonprofits, relationships grow and blossom into long-term volunteering partnerships, Board seats, and expanded corporate collaboration across communities.
Our programs bring nonprofits together over shared struggles that cross mission silos so that effective best practices spread broadly. We create new partnerships and share knowledge that brings communities closer and more collaborative. As a partner, not a vendor or funder, we create a stronger, empowered, and strengthened service community.
Dottie Rose Foundation Founder, Dr. Sharon Jones, and Veteran’s Bridge Home COO, Pete Vacho join Kim Lanphear on The Apparo Effect Podcast to discuss the results.
