
Watch the video of our November 30 workshop here.
To request a workshop like this one for your organization, fill out the Workshop Request form.

You can help prevent nonprofit burnout.

Watch “Susan’s Story” about
how a nonprofit lost a valuable employee to burnout.
(Animation created by former StM intern Flavian Philip)
Staffing the Mission works for change on two fronts, giving both nonprofits and funders concrete ways to make life better for diverse nonprofit employees.

Are you currently working (or have you worked) a burnout nonprofit job? We want to hear from you. Share your experience here! Video, audio and writing all welcome.

(Animation created by Abeeha Tahir)
Watch Marni and Jamila tell their own stories of nonprofit burnout jobs below.
Foundation staff and board members: Staffing the Mission works with foundations to promote practices among grantees that are aligned with the vision of the world that funders aim to create.
SURVEY OF FOUNDATIONS: Funders, it will help Staffing the Mission’s work for equity if you take this confidential survey on your practices that support or impede decent staff jobs at your grantee organizations.
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.
Check out this article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy that draws on Staffing the Mission’s work: Low Pay and Poor Working Conditions Forced a Vital Nonprofit to Shut Down. I Was Complicit in Its Demise, by Lisa Ranghelli
“While in general I think a lot about disappointing and unethical low wages across the [not-for-profit] sector, I hadn’t thought about how we could take a stand as a funder… This is cool stuff and I’m learning.” – Izzy Waxman, Mazon Canada
Resources for Nonprofits
The Staffing the Mission project helps nonprofits express their values through their compensation and personnel policies. The videos and blog posts below give concrete steps for nonprofit managers.
Staffing the Mission in the Media
Blog posts:
Nonprofits during COVID: Are you asking the right questions? by Jonathan Spack
Damaging Dishonesty between funders and grantees by Betsy Leondar-Wright


Articles:
Low Pay and Poor Working Conditions Forced a Vital Nonprofit to Shut Down. I Was Complicit in Its Demise, by Lisa Ranghelli
Staff burnout in small vs. large nonprofits