Staffing the Mission works for change on two fronts, giving both nonprofits and funders concrete ways to make life better for nonprofit employees.
Read more in the Staffing the Mission Report
The Staffing the Mission project helps nonprofits express their values through their compensation and personnel policies. We work with foundations to promote practices among grantees that are aligned with the vision of the world that funders aim to create.
Class Action hopes to inspire a wave of foundations and donors committed to supporting their grantees to meet a set of benchmarks on wages, benefits, hours, decision-making input and working conditions.
Better pay and benefits are major pieces in the larger puzzle of increasing class and racial diversity in the nonprofit sector and reducing wage gaps in the US.
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Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), a community organization founded in 1993 that focuses on economic development, has implemented some best practices in their pay structure and transparency practices.
Fair Pay Practices for Mission-Driven Work
What can be done about low-paid, low-quality jobs at non-profit organizations?
Class Action’s newest publication, Staffing the Mission, spotlights the downsides of many nonprofit jobs, and offers practical advice to funders and nonprofit managers to improve job quality.
A Staffing the Mission Webinar
Staffing the Mission in the Media
Radio and Podcasts:
Blog Posts:
- “Five Human Resources Tips for Valuing Your Nonprofit Staff” by Lyn Freundlich, member of the Staffing the Mission Advisory Council
- “Tips for Developing a Values Based Compensation Structure” by Lyn Freundlich
