We are the mission
Every person served, every promise kept runs on the labor of nonprofit workers who deserve fair pay, real protection, and a voice in the organizations we build.
You care for others, who cares for you?
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Nonprofit workers are too often exempt from the basic protections other industries take for granted: clear grievance processes, protection from retaliation, safe workloads, and real job security.
We're organizing to win enforceable worker protections across Minnesota's nonprofit sector, so mission-driven doesn't mean expendable.
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"We're a nonprofit, this is all we can afford" has become an age old excuse. Executive salaries have climbed even as frontline and program staff fall behind cost of living.
We're pushing for transparent, equitable pay scales, living wages across every role, and an end to the assumption that nonprofit workers should subsidize their employer's mission with their own paycheck.
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Too many nonprofit boards and executives operate with little oversight, using the language of "the mission" to avoid accountability for mismanagement, retaliation, or self-dealing. We're building real, logistical mechanisms: whistleblower protections, independent grievance channels, and board accountability standards.
Leadership will have to answer to the people doing the work and the communities being served.
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Many nonprofits publicly champion equity while internally maintaining pay gaps, inequitable promotion tracks, and leadership that doesn't reflect the communities they serve.
True equity means structural change: equitable hiring and advancement, pay audits, and decision-making power shared with workers closest to the mission.
This is more than a word tossed around staff meetings.
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Organizations built to advance justice can still replicate the same racial harm they claim to fight. Often this occurs through tokenization, unequal burden on BIPOC staff, disparaging treatment of participants served, and leadership that resists internal accountability.
We're committed to naming and confronting anti-racism within advocacy and nonprofit spaces themselves, not just in the causes.
Every worker for every worker
Every worker for every worker
Why We Exist
Non-profits need accountability beyond the existence of boards that are often too removed from the day to day realities of the organizations they oversee. Often times, problems are revealed too late or not at all.
Workers are left to struggle with financial injustice, burnout, and grievances without any protections for the sake of the mission. This causes harm not only throughout workplaces, but throughout communities.
Our advisors are current and former non-profit workers that care about the work, but believe it doesn’t have to come at the cost of your own spirit.
We bring a wealth of knowledge in employment law, human resources/compliance, policy making, grassroots organizing, and union bargaining to The Kinship Coalition.
