r/nonprofit

I started a youth-led nonprofit, Project Balanced, with my twin sister based on mental health and eating disorder awareness. Our mission is to break eating disorder stigmas and educate our community about these struggles. So, through our care packages to ed units in hospitals, mental health bookmark and brochure distribution, and research and volunteer opportunities, we hope to shed light on redefining what it means to be healthy and provide support. However, it is has been pretty slow and trying to obtain more volunteers and a solid team has been hard. We have been consistent with social media and community events, however expanding and gaining more individuals seem to not be working. Can anyone please give advice! Thanks!

I’m a development manger at a small nonprofit and I started our membership program 2 years ago. So far we have about 15 members and I’m trying to really grow the membership this year. I typically have two membership raffles per year to increase sign ups. They receive a raffle ticket if they become a member. I know I need to do more to make my strategy stronger.

Id love to hear what membership campaigns or other member acquisition strategies you’ve found successful. Any advice would be helpful!

Thank you!

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on LinkedIn about the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. Is this worth looking into? I’ve seen mixed ideas on its merits to employers, etc. Any thoughts would be appreciated!