How do you keep good people when you cannot pay market rate
You cannot, indefinitely, and pretending otherwise is how the sector burns people. What you can do is be honest about the trade and make the non-money side actually real: genuine flexibility, actual leave that people take, real responsibility early, and a manager who is not a bully.
Most people who leave underpaid nonprofit jobs do not leave because of the salary. They leave because it was underpaid AND badly managed. You control the second one entirely and it is free.
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and pay what you can, on time, every time. I have seen orgs miss payroll by a week and act like it is fine because the mission is good. It is not fine. It is the fastest way to lose the people you cannot afford to lose.
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Locking here. See the note at the top.
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