Retention Report Special Features - Impact of Funding

-We need more unrestricted funds available from our funders so that we can invest in infrastructure and our people. -We lost our employees because of a grant restructuring, which prevents us from keeping that position. We have trouble getting and keeping quality employees because of our low salaries. However, lack of support prevents us from raising the salaries. -We don’t really have a huge turnover but it appears that way because we have a large amount of seasonal summer staff. Childcare employees that are grant funded are our biggest challenge. -Our retention/turnover problem seems to have more with fundraising issues – short-term grants that may require people with different skills from one year to the next, etc. — than with working conditions. -Our problem is not so much retention, as our employees tend to be pretty loyal. Rather, we have problems with being able to pay our staff that’s here so we can keep them. Our staff has shrunk over the past 3 years sue to lack of funding, not lack of dedicated employees. -Increasing salaries will be dependent upon Board participation in fundraising. -Competition for grant funding to support full- and part-time employees is becoming more competitive in the health arena. As such, allowing job sharing is becoming more common. Back to the Retention and Vacancy Report