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Watch UST's most popular on-demand webinars. This channel consists of panel discussions with nonprofit leaders, helpful tips to prepare for re-entry into the workplace, employee wellness strategies, and much more.
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2022 Employee Engagement Toolkit
To help nonprofit leaders rethink the employee experience, we've compiled our top resources to create the 2022 Employee Engagement Toolkit. With all that you do for the communities you serve, it's critical that you focus on those who keep your mission moving forward by fostering a work culture where employees feel valued, involved and supported—keeping them intrinsically motivated and engaged.
Nonprofit Leadership Toolkit
When you download the Nonprofit Leadership Toolkit, you'll gain access to a performance appraisal checklist, manager-employee check-in form and tips for leading a hybrid workforce—all designed to help nonprofit leaders maintain high-performing teams.
HR Compliance Toolkit
When you download the HR Compliance Toolkit, you'll gain access to an HR audit checklist, essential employee benefit ideas, and tips for avoiding unemployment fraud—all designed to help nonprofits enhance their HR management strategies.
Recruitment and Retention Toolkit
To help nonprofit employers strengthen their recruiting and retention practices—while focusing on the employee's entire journey with the organization—we created the 2021 Recruitment and Retention Toolkit. This free toolkit includes a recruiting checklist, workplace flexibility fundamentals, interview best practice tips, and more.
People Risk Management Toolkit
This free toolkit offers resources to help nonprofit employers strengthen their employee risk management practices—and mitigate the risks that can ultimately affect your bottom line. This toolkit includes a performance improvement plan a risk audit questionnaire, risk management best practice tips and more.
Employer Onboarding Toolkit
This free toolkit will provide you with helpful onboarding checklists, a survey template, and a 30-60-90 day plan. Plus, you'll get access to our on-demand webinar, which provides strategies for streamlining your onboarding processes, engaging new employees, and crafting an employee experience that reflects and supports your company culture.
Employer Risk Management Toolkit
When you download the Employer Risk Management Toolkit, you'll get access to a helpful state-specific unemployment insurance guide, a UI Integrity infographic, unemployment fraud prevention tips and more—all designed to help nonprofit organizations address (and avoid) future UI risks.
Workforce Re-Entry Toolkit
When you download the Workforce Re-Entry Toolkit, you'll get access to helpful checklists, letter templates, sample policies and response plans—designed to help nonprofit leaders prepare to re-enter the workplace.
Telecommuting Toolkit
When you download the Telecommuting Toolkit, you'll get valuable insight on how to create and implement a sustainable telecommuting policy within your organization, as well as helpful checklists, sample policies and virtual meeting best practice tips.
2020 UST Nonprofit HR Toolkit
When you download the HR Toolkit, you'll get updated 2020 state and local minimum wage data and recordkeeping requirements, as well as a variety of checklists to ensure compliance. Plus, learn about the facts surrounding COVID-19 laws and the latest workplace protocol.
Employee Engagement Toolkit
When you download the Employee Engagement Toolkit, you'll get access to a helpful employer checklist, a survey template and best practice tips—all designed to help nonprofit leaders develop engagement strategies that support their dedicated staff during times of uncertainty.
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2022 Changing Workforce Bundle
Download the UST 2022 Changing Workforce Bundle for just $19 to uncover a 3-pillar action plan to transform your nonprofits recruitment and retention strategy. This information-packed bundle gives you access to a wealth of helpful resources—including our Changing Nonprofit Workforce eBook and Toolkit—filled with the tools you need to support a dynamic workforce.
2021 Employer Guide: Nonprofit Leadership Development
Download a copy of UST's latest Employer Guide, 3 Vital Steps for Developing a Durable Nonprofit Leadership Team, to discover strategies that can help identify (and develop) tomorrow's leaders with training opportunities designed to strengthen your brand and build resilient teams.
2021 eBook: Essential Practices to Cultivate a Positive Employee Experience
Download UST's latest eBook to discover 3 key strategies that can help your nonprofit create (and sustain) a resilient workforce.
2021 eBook: Strategies to Ensure Nonprofit Resiliency
Download UST's eBook to explore 3 key strategies that can help your nonprofit implement a game plan that will help ensure organizational sustainability in the wake of the next disaster.
2020 eBook: Strategies to Secure Nonprofit Endurance
Download UST's eBook to explore 5 key strategies that can help strengthen your organization's culture through inclusivity, innovation and trust.
COVID-19 Employer Guide
When you download the 3 Critical Steps to Maintain a Resilient Nonprofit, you'll discover helpful tips on maintaining your nonprofit operations during the current pandemic and beyond.
2019 eBook: Innovative Nonprofit Retentions Strategies
Download UST's eBook to discover the top 5 strategies to employee engagement practices that help to foster a desirable workplace.
2018 eBook: Competitive Hiring Practices That Empower Nonprofits
Download UST's eBook to uncover the top six strategies to develop and maintain a thriving workplace—based on recent survey data and employment trends.
2017 eBook: Nonprofit Talent Sustainability Strategies
Download this eBook from UST, which reveals the top five ways to combat hiring and succession planning obstacles—based on recent survey data and employment trends.
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Cybersecurity Risk Management
In this rendition of UST Live, we welcomed leaders with expertise in cyber security risk management to discover how you can create business practices that safeguard your reputation, your donors, and the communities you serve.
Volunteer Management Strategies
In this rendition of UST Live, you'll learn how to improve your volunteer retention rates while increasing engagement and what you can do to keep volunteers excited about the work your nonprofit does to support it's surrounding communities.
On-Demand Webinar: The Workplace of Today and Tomorrow - Managing Risk and Reward
For just $29, you can watch this on-demand webinar and learn how to identify (and mitigate) nonprofit risk while fostering an engaged workforce. You'll also be able to download several handouts essential for managing risk at your nonprofit
Succession Planning and Preparedness
In this rendition of UST Live, you'll discover why proactively addressing how your leadership needs will evolve in the future and identifying activities that strengthen leadership capacity can help you create the resiliency and agility your organization needs to thrive when a long-tenured leader leaves.
On-Demand Webinar: HR Engagement & Brand Strategies
For just $29, you can watch this on-demand webinar to discover helpful tactics for building a strong nonprofit brand while fostering an engaged workforce. You'll learn the importance of evaluating your employer brand, tips for embracing culture diversity and much more.
On-Demand Webinar: Creating a Strong and Engaged Board of Directors
For just $29, join Jennifer Flowers, Founder and CEO at Accreditation Guru and discover how to build a well-functioning, cohesive board of directors and why it's crucial for supporting mission fulfillment, financial stability and strategic direction.
Employee Engagement and Development Strategies
This on-demand UST Live discussion touches on how innovative strategies are being used by your nonprofit peers for increasing engagement, while emphasizing the well-being of employees and work-life balance.
Advocacy & Legislative Support for Nonprofits
You can now watch the UST Live discussion on-demand to learn how advocacy efforts have changed and what your nonprofit peers are doing to ensure their organizations are being heard at local, state and federal levels
The Future of the Nonprofit Workforce
In this rendition of UST Live we're joined by leaders from across the U.S with expertise in nonprofit management to discuss innovative strategies for creating a forward-looking workplace culture that is flexible, inclusive, and resilient.
Strategies to Identify Board Diversity
In the latest rendition of UST Live, we were joined by guest moderator, Jenny Berg of the Leadership Council for Nonprofits, where we welcomed thought leaders from across the U.S. with expertise in DEI best practices.
Employee Engagement Strategies for 2021 (and Beyond)
Watch the on-demand recording to hear how your nonprofit peers are keeping staff engaged (and productive), while emphasizing work-life balance and creating employee development opportunities.
Virtual Onboarding Strategies for Nonprofit Employers
The logistics of virtual onboarding may seem daunting but how you welcome a new hire is crucial to the success of both the organization and the employee. This webinar will provide strategies for streamlining your onboarding processes, engaging new employees, and crafting a remote employee experience that reflects and supports your company culture.
Recruiting During a Pandemic
This interactive hour-long webinar will address the latest innovative strategies for interviewing and hiring best-fit job candidates, while showcasing brand and culture, throughout these difficult times. You'll also learn about the latest recruiting tools that your HR peers have leveraged during the pandemic.
Developing a Sustainable Strategy for 2021
With a panel of 3 reputable nonprofit executives—who have expertise in strategic thinking and organizational sustainability best practices—you can get YOUR questions answered first-hand during this virtual discussion.
Employee Management Strategies
This interactive hour-long webinar will address the latest innovative strategies related to nonprofit onboarding, training, employee development and employee engagement during these difficult times. With a panel of 3 reputable nonprofit leaders—who have expertise in HR best practices and employee relations management—you can get YOUR questions answered first-hand during this virtual discussion.
Beyond the Curve: Preparing for Re-Entry to the Workplace Recording
Nonprofit employers have faced unimaginable challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This informative webinar provides helpful tips for preparing to welcome employees back to the office while maintaining compliance with state and federal regulations related to the Coronavirus.
Employee Engagement & Mental Wellness Strategies During COVID-19
While we continue to adjust to this new "normal" of working remotely—with little to no face-to-face interaction—the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a major toll on nonprofit employees and their mental health. This informative webinar will provide helpful tips on how nonprofit leaders can help employees productive and engaged in day-to-day work activities.
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2021 Nonprofit Workforce Trends Infographic
UST surveyed more than 400 nonprofit leaders from across the U.S. to uncover the latest sector trends caused by the pandemic and created the 2021 Workforce Trends Infographic. Download a copy to get a sneak peak at what your nonprofit peers had to share about their top workforce issues, COVID's impact on staffing levels and more.
2021 Nonprofit Sector Report: Pandemic Impact on Workforce
This $99 report will provide valuable insight on how nonprofit organizations are navigating the ongoing challenges that have arisen throughout the pandemic. With over 400 survey respondents—representing a wide variety of nonprofits from across the U.S.—this report unveils the pandemic’s impact on workforce evolution and illustrates how the sector withstood the hardships caused by the crisis.
2020 Nonprofit Workforce Trends Infographic
Last year, UST surveyed more than 165 nonprofit employers across the U.S. to uncover the latest sector trends. UST compiled these critical survey takeaways to create the Nonprofit Workforce Trends Infographic. Learn what your nonprofit peers had to say about prominent turnover reasons, workforce issues and more.
COVID-19 Workforce Trends Report
With nearly 800 survey respondents—representing a wide variety of nonprofits from across the U.S.—this report highlights critical COVID-19 information. This report will provide valuable insight on how nonprofit organizations are coping with the unprecedented challenges during this pandemic.
2015 UST Nonprofit Employee Engagement & Retention Report
This survey utilized multiple choice and open-ended comments to gather data from nonprofit employees across the United States, representing diverse job titles and sub-sectors. Conducted over three and a half weeks beginning June 23, 2015, 1,270 nonprofit employees completed all questions in the survey out of 1,515 respondents who began the survey.
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On-Demand Webinar: The Workplace of Today and Tomorrow - Managing Risk and Reward
For just $29, you can watch this on-demand webinar and learn how to identify (and mitigate) nonprofit risk while fostering an engaged workforce. You'll also be able to download several handouts essential for managing risk at your nonprofit
2022 Changing Workforce Bundle
Download the UST 2022 Changing Workforce Bundle for just $19 to uncover a 3-pillar action plan to transform your nonprofits recruitment and retention strategy. This information-packed bundle gives you access to a wealth of helpful resources—including our Changing Nonprofit Workforce eBook and Toolkit—filled with the tools you need to support a dynamic workforce.
On-Demand Webinar: HR Engagement & Brand Strategies
For just $29, you can watch this on-demand webinar to discover helpful tactics for building a strong nonprofit brand while fostering an engaged workforce. You'll learn the importance of evaluating your employer brand, tips for embracing culture diversity and much more.
On-Demand Webinar: Creating a Strong and Engaged Board of Directors
For just $29, join Jennifer Flowers, Founder and CEO at Accreditation Guru and discover how to build a well-functioning, cohesive board of directors and why it's crucial for supporting mission fulfillment, financial stability and strategic direction.
2021 Nonprofit Sector Report: Pandemic Impact on Workforce
This $99 report will provide valuable insight on how nonprofit organizations are navigating the ongoing challenges that have arisen throughout the pandemic. With over 400 survey respondents—representing a wide variety of nonprofits from across the U.S.—this report unveils the pandemic’s impact on workforce evolution and illustrates how the sector withstood the hardships caused by the crisis.