Acknowledgments

This report was written by Betsy Leondar-Wright, PhD, Coordinator of Staffing the Mission, the research and dissemination arm of Fund the People. Intern Nikki Mirala contributed data management, NVivo analysis, graphics, editing and proofreading.

Thanks to the following for reviewing drafts: Laurie Goldman, Staffing the Mission Advisory Council member; Mariah Casias, Fund the People Outreach & Program Associate; Rusty Stahl, Fund the People Founder, President, and CEO; Rob Clockedile, Fund the People Chief Communications Officer; and Gail Leondar-Wright.

We gratefully appreciate the time and thoughtfulness given by each of the 14 interviewees. Full disclosure: Fund the People partnered with four philanthropic organizations, including the Walter & Elise Haas Fund, to co-convene the 2024 California Talent Justice Initiative. During this collaboration, we received a one-year general operating support grant from the Walter & Elise Haas Fund in November 2023. We began this research in December 2024, after the grant term concluded. The Fund’s staff agreed to be interviewed, and helped us to contact several grantees, but otherwise were not involved in initiating, funding, shaping, or editing the research or this report.

This Upgrading Nonprofit Workplaces report was funded by Fund the People and Staffing the Mission.
Thanks to the following funders for supporting our work during this time.