It’s kind of weird how we expect so much from charities and social work yet generally revile any attempt to pay their workers any more than the bare minimum.
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I’m curious to hear what you think would solve this problem. Changing donors minds, changing the nature of philanthropy (to become more of a social enterprise), something else? A combination of the above?
I only became aware of the problem a couple months ago, because the people running nonprofits mostly suffer in silence till they burn out and quit. But it is a big focus for me now and I have a lot of ideas I want to try.
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They range from the simple expedient of unilaterally paying people more, to factoring burnout into big donors' impact calculations, to new ways for nonprofits to offer programs "off the shelf" and thus avoid being micromanaged.
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The Effective Altruism framework says it is preferable to pay big bucks to workers if it produces even greater outcome gains. i.e., outcomes > overhead
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Looking forward to it!
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