New tool helps track Latinx‐oriented funding

• Published date: 01 August 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nba.30632
• Date: 01 August 2019

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Vol. 359 August 2019

Nonprot employees report high job satisfaction,

note need for better leadership-staff alignment

Recent research on employee satisfaction and other

human resource–related issues in the nonprot sector

shows that most workers stafng the nation’s charities

are happy with their jobs and organizations. That be-

ing said, there are plenty of areas for improvement,

according to the research, conducted by fundraising

software provider Classy. Nonprot Business Advisor

spoke with Soraya Alexander, senior vice president

of marketing at Classy, about the survey and some

of its key takeaways.

Q: The survey shows a fairly high rate of overall job

satisfaction for nonprot staff. How does this compare

to the private sector?

A: Our survey found that 84% of nonprot pro-

fessionals across departments express satisfaction in

their jobs. This level of job satisfaction is much higher

than the latest poll of American workers as a whole,

with just 51% of employees reporting that they were

satised with their jobs in The Conference Board’s

latest annual survey, conducted in 2018.

Also in this issue

Conferences and Events: The Young Nonprot

Professionals Network National Conference;

the ASAE Annual Meeting and Expo; and the

Claremont Evaluation Center Workshops ...........4

Regulatory News: Changes to accounting standards

offer new options for collections-related revenue ......5

Nonprot Research: Giving USA report shows

donations stagnant for 2018 ......................6

Industry News: Study shows millennial entrepreneurs

more generous than earlier generations .............7

Civic 50 Awards show increasingly strategic

corporate philanthropy ..........................7

Resources: Webinar gives tips on nonprot

dashboards; Charityhowto.com webinar looks at

evaluation in smaller grants; Foundation Center

explores corporate partnerships ...................9

Employment Law: Legal cases that impact nonprots . 10

News: Briefs from around the sector .............. 12

New tool helps track

Latinx-oriented funding

Candid and Hispanics in Philanthropy have

launched a new online dashboard, dubbed Latinx-

Funders, that tracks philanthropy’s role in the

Latinx populations across the United States and

its territories over a ve-year period, from 2013–17.

According to Candid—formerly GuideStar—

LatinxFunders will be an ongoing project to help

funders and grantseekers understand how phil-

anthropic resources are being awarded for Latinx

communities, and what gaps may exist that can

help guide funding strategies. With this tool, the

sector can more accurately target resources and

support short- and long-term strategies to build

prosperity for all Latinx, the groups said.

The online dashboard will feature overall fund-

ing trends for the 2013–17 window, broken down

by nine regions based on subdivisions of the four

census geographic regions and U.S. territories.

Funders’ interests and priorities are detailed and

explored from different angles to identify patterns

and changes.

The tool offers Latinx funders the ability to

share data to complete the “funding picture” and

better educate decision-making, the groups said.

For more information, visit https://latinxfunders.

org. ■

(See SATISFACTION on page 2)

As to why this job satisfaction is higher in the

nonprot sector, we don’t necessarily have a deni-

tive reason based on the results, but we do think it

may have something to do with both the alignment

across the sector as well as trends in employment that

have led to people wanting to work for more mission-

driven companies—and what’s more mission-driven

than a nonprot?

For example, we found the majority of survey