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Making Your Organization an Employer of Choice:  Bold Ideas for the Caring Workplace

With National Expert Ellen Galinsky

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When we think about competing for and retaining talent, we often think about salary, but in truth, our practices and culture beyond pay scale matter tremendously – for retention, for morale, for productivity, and more.  When our people are healthy, supported and have the flexibility they need, there are remarkable improvements in work quality, effectiveness and organizational climate.

So – what are the innovative practices in our sector that make our workplaces more effective while providing supports to our staff and volunteers?

We’ve recruited a national expert - President and Co-Founder of Families and Work Institute   Ellen Galinsky, to share research and real-world examples with you on our next webinar.

The Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees initiative aims to enhance employee and volunteer commitment to nonprofit human services organizations and the children, youth, families, and communities they serve.  Caring workplaces contribute to family stability by assuring paid and volunteer staff receive support in meeting family responsibilities that might otherwise distract them on the job or contribute to unpredictable absences, burnout, and premature departures. With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the National Human Services Assembly’s Family Strengthening Policy Center (FSPC) is leading the Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees initiative.

Overview of the Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees Initiative

Learn about why Caring Workplace practices can make a difference and what the FSPC is doing to stimulate change in the nonprofit human services sector.

Caring Workplace Practices: A Catalog for Nonprofit Human Services Organizations

NEW! The Business Case for Caring Workplaces

One of the keys to resilience for our organizations through these troubling economic times is cultivating and retaining an engaged,  high-performing workforce. Too expensive? Think again. With low-cost, high-impact policies and practices, we can create effective workplaces that minimize turnover and maximize mission impact.

NEW! Building a Caring Workplace- Baseline Data on Caring Workplace Practices Among National Human Service Organizations

Results from our survey of organizations like yours:  Entitled Building a Caring Workplace:  Baseline Data on Caring Workplace Practices Among National Human Service Organizations this brief presents key findings from our Caring Workplaces survey.   Our research found that many national human services organizations are utilizing Caring Workplace practices to optimize workforce performance and retain high-value employees and volunteers – and we identified some areas where we can look at doing more.

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American Cancer Society: A Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees Case Study

Every nonprofit has a defined mission, and many rely on both paid and unpaid staff
to achieve their goals. The American Cancer Society (ACS) conceptualized a system
that integrates both types of staff—employees and volunteers—into a single talent
management structure. This case study shows how ACS’s innovative approach is
providing a great place to work while also increasing organizational effectiveness.

Idealist.org: A Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees Case Study

Idealist.org (Idealist) creates a trusting workplace environment to help its employees succeed on the job. Exploring the ways in which Idealist has made changes to care for its employees, this case study offers other nonprofits insights on how to enhance staff performance and satisfaction while also supporting work-life balance.

NeighborWorks® America: A Caring Workplaces, Committed Employees Case Study

Use this case study of a nonprofit employer to explore your own Caring Workplace strengths and identify opportunities to further help staff members realize their potential at work and manage their family and community responsibilities.

Low Quality Jobs Can Be Costly for Employers, Families

Discover the connection between workplace practices, employee and volunteer productivity and retention, and family stability.

Caring Workplaces, Resource List

Find useful assessment tools, case studies, research summaries, and guidance from reliable sources.

Related Commentaries:

National Assembly CEO Writes on Workforce, Sector Challenges

• In “Generational Dynamics in the Workplace,” published in Together, the magazine of Generations United, NHSA CEO, Irv Katz, observes that the issues of recruiting and developing entry workers and executive level workers are inseparable.  Both need to be integrated in comprehensive talent development strategies. Click here.
• The Nonprofit Times, June 1, 2008, edition, includes an essay on “Reinventing, Re-imagining Voluntarism and the Voluntary Sector,” in which Katz observes that the nonprofit sector sells itself short by not using clear language about what it is, how complex it is, and how essential it is to society.  He asserts that language is a part of the solution, opting for terms like civic sector and civic enterprise over nonprofit sector and charity.   Other strategies are suggested, including competing for talent Click here.

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