{"id":39414,"date":"2017-09-09T02:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-09T02:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/?post_type=career_profile&#038;p=39414"},"modified":"2024-11-14T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T14:27:37","slug":"effective-non-profits","status":"publish","type":"career_profile","link":"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/effective-non-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Working at effective nonprofits"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":39577,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"[fn 1] \r\nNote that as part of this review we don't include:\r\n\r\n* [Founding non-profits](https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/founding-effective-global-poverty-non-profits\/)\r\n* Doing [research in academia](https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/valuable-academic-research\/) (many universities are non-profit institutions), [researcher roles at think tanks](https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/think-tank-research), and [grantmaking roles at  foundations](https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/foundation-program-manager\/)\r\n* [Working at large international organisations](https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/program-manager-in-international-organisations\/), such as the UN or World Bank\r\n[\/fn]\r\n\r\n[fn 2] \r\n\"Our research shows that a credible number is around 600 poor million people are affected every year by seasonal hunger.\" [Evidence Action - Seasonal Poverty: The Biggest Development Problem You Have Never Heard Of](https:\/\/www.evidenceaction.org\/beta-no-lean-season#seasonal-poverty) <\/br> [Archived link](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170907013635\/https:\/\/www.evidenceaction.org\/beta-no-lean-season)\r\n[\/fn]\r\n\r\n[fn 3] \r\n\"Migration induced by our intervention increases food and non-food expenditures of migrants' family members remaining at the origin by 30\u201335%, and improves their caloric intake by 550\u2013700 calories per person per day\"\r\n[Bryan, Gharad, Shyamal Chowdhury, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak. \"Underinvestment in a profitable technology: The case of seasonal migration in Bangladesh.\" *Econometrica* 82.5 (2014): 1671-1748.](http:\/\/eprints.lse.ac.uk\/60152\/1\/Bryan_Underinvestment%20in%20a%20profitable%20technology.pdf) <\/br> [Archived link](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170907014222\/http:\/\/eprints.lse.ac.uk\/60152\/1\/Bryan_Underinvestment%20in%20a%20profitable%20technology.pdf)\r\n[\/fn]\r\n\r\n[fn 4] \r\n[Winning the Talent War: New Brookings Survey Finds the Nonprofit Sector Has the Most Dedicated Workforce](https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/news-releases\/winning-the-talent-war-new-brookings-survey-finds-the-nonprofit-sector-has-the-most-dedicated-workforce\/) <\/br> [Archived link](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170907014411\/https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/news-releases\/winning-the-talent-war-new-brookings-survey-finds-the-nonprofit-sector-has-the-most-dedicated-workforce\/)\r\n[\/fn]\r\n\r\n[fn 5]  [Bureau of Labor Statistics - Wages in the Nonprofit Sector: Management, Professional, and Administrative\r\nSupport Occupations](https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/cwc\/wages-in-the-nonprofit-sector-management-professional-and-administrative-support-occupations.pdf) <\/br> [Archived link](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170907014540\/https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/cwc\/wages-in-the-nonprofit-sector-management-professional-and-administrative-support-occupations.pdf)\r\nThe data provided was average hourly wages. We assumed a 2000 hour work-year, to calculate the annual figures. \r\n[\/fn]\r\n\r\n[fn 6] [Glassdoor: The Good Food Institute Reviews](https:\/\/www.glassdoor.com\/Reviews\/The-Good-Food-Institute-Reviews-E1663955.htm)\r\n[\/fn]\r\n\r\n[fn 7] [Lifehacker: Everything You Need to Know About Working for a Non-Profit](http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-working-for-a-non-pro-1542939888) <\/br> [Archived link](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170907014839\/http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-working-for-a-non-pro-1542939888)\r\n\r\n[\/fn]"},"categories":[300,1187,342,1188],"class_list":["post-39414","career_profile","type-career_profile","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-building-effective-altruism","category-building-the-ea-community","category-careers","category-operations-at-high-impact-orgs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Working at effective nonprofits - Career review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/career-reviews\/effective-non-profits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should you work for a non-profit? 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