C3 Vantage Points

Employees of nonprofits do life-changing work from helping people at the hardest moments in their lives, to breaking down barriers in healthcare and education, to fighting for the environment. They give of themselves, but this doesn’t mean they should sacrifice financial well-being to do a job they love.

We’ve heard too many stories of overworked nonprofit employees who are unable to afford housing, provide healthy meals for their children, and pay for childcare and higher education without taking on mountains of debt.

Many nonprofits correctly say they already pay their workers a living wage.