OK Research Nonprofit Retention and Vacancy Report

Is the employee turnover in your organization “normal”? What can you do to combat turnover and retain good employees?



The Opportunity Knocks 2008 Nonprofit Retention and Vacancy Report provides nonprofit employers a benchmark to compare themselves to. The goal of this report is to find the answers to the following questions:

• What are the turnover rates for OK’s nonprofit employers?
• Why are employees leaving?
• Where are they going?
• Are nonprofits concerned about turnover rates and what are they doing to address the issue?

Opportunity Knocks conducted its own survey for this report, which is available at no charge to the nonprofit community, to provide nonprofits with valuable information and suggestions for addressing turnover and vacancy rates.

“The 2008 Nonprofit Retention and Vacancy Report helps to guide decision makers develop ways to retain valuable employees. True to our mission, this demonstrates our commitment to helping nonprofit organizations build successful human resource strategies.” Karen Beavor, President and CEO of Opportunity Knocks.

Click here to download the report.


Special Features
Survey respondents provided us with many comments and additional insight that are not included in our report, but we wanted to make available to you. Listed here are the topics that you can peruse for additional insight and provide your own feedback on. Click on any of them to read the comments.

• Effect of Salary and Benefits
• Positions Challenging to Fill
• Efforts to Counter Turnover
• Organization Culture and Work Environment
• Impact of Funding