Nonprofit Jobs: Top 10 Organizations To Work For (STUDY)

According to a new study, employees of nonprofits are happy to be there.

But who's the happiest?

The Nonprofit Times 2012 Best Nonprofits to Work For ranked the top 50 do-gooder organizations to work for with regard to the following areas: leadership and planning, corporate culture and communications, role satisfaction, work environment, relationship with supervisor, training and development, pay and benefits, and overall employee engagement.

Overall, 84 percent of respondents had positive things to say. Susan Springer, director of workplace assessments for Best Companies Group, pointed out that employees at most nonprofits express higher levels of satisfaction in general. “I got to thinking, and in particular we see a high level of engagement from employees of nonprofits” compared to other industries, she told the Nonprofit Times. “This particular group [nonprofit employees] is very dedicated to the mission: helping people, making a difference, whether locally, nationally or internationally. There’s something that’s intrinsically satisfying about it.”

Which nonprofit earned the No. 1 spot? Click through the slideshow below to find out and then check out the full list at the Nonprofit Times.

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Comments

[bradymom2]

03:25 AM on 06/12/2012

“I would like to share some insite with my Fellow Military Members and community! Me and my husband recently submitted an application for assistance to a non profit who is claiming to helping vets! My husband is a combined 70 percent rated through the VA, with PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury! We submitted everything to them his dd214's, his rating through the VA! He had me running around for half the day asking me for stuff that i still submitted! It was almost as if he was going to ask me for copies of my husbands medical records too until i got sarcastic with him! Me and my husband our facing a finacial crisis this month due to an unexpected car repair bill and needed help with phone internet and electric, and food. We will be sitting here in 110 dgree weather in Arizona in a couple of days without electric becuase this incompetant organization or i should say non profit has decided that he doesnt have a good reason to deny my husband he just is! I called his director i caught him in several lies! If there are people who can investigate this guy! They dont help Vets! Just accept donations! http://impactahero.org/about.php Dick Lynch Founder

[pinetarred]

12:34 PM on 04/10/2012

What about those run by politicians, ex-politicians, their cronies and the 1.4 million already registered as non profits...What about these non profits who operate for foreign countries and they get untold millions of US taxpayers funding and spend it our of the USA...

[sdanca4]

08:24 AM on 04/10/2012

What happened to Doctors without Borders? Maybe they should come home to America, afterall there are millions without healthcare and millions of children without healthcare. Maybe we should stop being in Denial and admit and accept that America is a Third World country...designed to be that way 30+ years ago under the Reagan Adm. policies. It is NOW the Finale of those policies. Why else would only the Republicans call Reagan their HERO?

[missielou]

09:34 AM on 11/02/2012

Are you kidding? You obviously have never been to a third world country. There is health care in the states: MIChild and other programs. I've served in garbage dump communities in Central America and the children there would be so lucky to live in the states. They literally have no access to drinking water, all have some sort of intestinal parasite, most do not own a pair of shoes. They sift through garbage dumps for food and live in the most unimaginable dwellings. The ones I visited had no beds, electricity, running water, etc. I suggest you volunteer on a mission trip. Many of your local churches would love to have you come along!

[hanspij]

07:37 PM on 04/09/2012

No medical cannabis industry in this list?
Dont they like to work there?
Dont say to me they are to smal.