August 6, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
The anonymous author of The New Jew, a blog dedicated to discussing Jewish philanthropy, says that since nonprofit workers are less concerned with financial gain than corporate employees, they have a different set of needs than their for-profit peers.
The blogger identifies five conditions that lead to nonprofit-job satisfaction.
They include a workplace culture filled with common values and goals; opportunities for professional development, including areas outside of a worker’s specific expertise; and a close relationship between a worker and his or her boss, who should be someone who can serve as a kind of “guru.”
“Without these factors, a nonprofit employee knows that there are other opportunities out there and — being the optimist that she is — will let them lead her elsewhere,” the author writes.
Visit The Chronicle’s careers Web site for other ideas about how to keep nonprofit employees happy.
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