The Nonprofit Workforce Paradox: Who Pays for Doing Good? — with Elaine Ng, TSNE

What does it say about the nonprofit sector when its own employees qualify for the services they provide? In this episode, you’ll get a candid look at the structures and assumptions that keep nonprofit professionals underpaid and unsupported, along with the questions we need to confront to change them. Elaine Ng, President and CEO of Third Sector New England (TSNE), joins Fund the People’s Rusty Stahl to examine chronic workforce under-investment, unequal relationships with philanthropy, and leadership transitions that leave new leaders expected to fix organizations without the resources to succeed. Drawing on more than three decades in the sector, Elaine challenges the expectation that meaningful work should be its own reward, asking what rebuilding could look like if communities and the people serving them came first. **Download a PDF of the episode transcript:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1\_WTpt6d9RFyC\_Y4c4zp3wEdE64npsx4d/view?usp=sharing About Elaine: https://tsne.org/team/elaine-ng/ **Resources mentioned:**  Third Sector New England (TSNE): https://tsne.org/ Independent Sector’s Center on the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Workforce: https://independentsector.org/center-on-nonprofit-and-philanthropic-workforce/ Connect with Elaine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaine-ng-9430937/ **Fund the People Links:** Fund the People website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://fundthepeople.org/⁠ Fund the People Podcast: ⁠⁠https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/fund-the-people⁠⁠  Join the FTP Podcast Premium community over on Patreon for extended episodes, bonus content, and more: ⁠⁠http://patreon.com/fundthepeople⁠ **Related FTP Content:** Upgrading Nonprofit Workplaces: Flourishing with Fewer Hours - with Betsy Leondar-Wright, Ph.D. (Guest Host), Adam Jespersen, and Juliet Schor, Ph.D. : https://open.spotify.com/episode/1422a5hSRXov6U3u33BX39?si=4mKfUqNtTsWzx49rly1uKA A New Era of Philanthropy: Why Funders Must Invest in Nonprofit People - with Dimple Abichandani: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4IimykNh1tuB8R2z4ZpH5D?si=O3U9D0TaTp2VTfPDdDViPQ Funding Nonprofit People & Possibility: Inside the Durfee Foundation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7DmAoEQ0F8HZPNpeCi7PVM?si=2MocHvzvTkihhpNtAc4arA