FOR NON-PROFITS & FOUNDATIONS
Your mission moves people.
Community keeps them.
Connect Networks helps nonprofits and foundations retain the volunteers and staff who make the work possible — by giving them something that permeates a mission statement: Each other.
THE PROBLEM
The organizations with the most momentum share one thing: Their members feel genuinely connected to the mission and each other.
People show up because they care about what you're doing and they respect the people they stand beside. They stay because they belong. Right now, the infrastructure that fosters that belonging — consistently, in human ways, between events and campaigns — doesn't exist in most organizations. That's the gap Connect fills.
67%
of nonprofit staff are looking for a new job or will be within the year
Candid / Social Impact Staff Retention Project, 2024
47%
of nonprofit CEOs say recruiting sufficient volunteers is already a significant problem
Do Good Institute, University of Maryland, 2022
40%
decline in median volunteer hours since 2017 — those who stay are giving less, not more
AmeriCorps / U.S. Census Bureau, 2023
75%
of nonprofits report persistent job vacancies, particularly in program and service delivery
National Council of Nonprofits, 2023
WHAT CONNECT DOES
Engagement infrastructure your staff doesn't have to run.
01
Keep volunteers from drifting
Research shows a 52% increase in volunteer retention when volunteers are paired with an experienced peer 1:1. Connect makes that happen systematically, at scale, without adding to your team's workload.
02
Connect your staff across the organization
Nonprofit staff report high rates of isolation, especially in distributed teams. Structured peer connection bridges silos, increases the flow of information, and creates the sense of shared purpose that keeps people engaged at higher levels.
03
Activate your grantee or donor network
Foundations hold extraordinary networks of practitioners, funders, and change-makers who rarely speak to one another. Connect creates the infrastructure for insight and opportunity to circulate — and for relationships to form that advance the mission.
04
Surface what your community is experiencing
Anonymized themes reveal emerging needs, shared challenges, and knowledge gaps — giving leadership a real-time signal that no survey can match.
What keeps me coming back is the chance to connect with people outside my bubble.
Connect reinforces that the work I'm doing is just as important in other places, but we each bring a different lens to it.
ROBIN WANG
Portland, OR
Your community already has everything it needs. We just build the infrastructure to unlock it.
Let's start with your specific challenge — retention, engagement, knowledge sharing, or something else.