The Nonprofit Sector Cannot Fight Inequity With Low Salaries | Opinion
Yet there is an uncomfortable contradiction inside that mission – many of the people being asked to improve economic security for others are struggling to achieve it themselves.Consider two of America’s most expensive labor markets. Now compare those numbers with the realities I have observed over more than two decades working in nonprofit and charter-school staffing. When workers cannot afford to remain, nonprofits pay for vacancies, recruitment, onboarding, and retraining.
- ▪Yet there is an uncomfortable contradiction inside that mission – many of the people being asked to improve economic security for others are struggling to achieve it themselves.Consider two of America’s most expensive labor markets.
- ▪Now compare those numbers with the realities I have observed over more than two decades working in nonprofit and charter-school staffing.
- ▪When workers cannot afford to remain, nonprofits pay for vacancies, recruitment, onboarding, and retraining.
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By Katie WarnockCEO of Staffing Boutique0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.America’s nonprofit sector exists to address some of society’s hardest problems: poverty, hunger, education gaps, homelessness, and inequality. Yet there is an uncomfortable contradiction inside that mission – many of the people being asked to improve economic security for others are struggling to achieve it themselves.Consider two of America’s most expensive labor markets.
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