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Caroline Preston reports on a downward trend in the savior market in “Long Hours, Low Pay Turn Off Young Nonprofit Workers” in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.A new survey of young nonprofit workers shows that long hours and low pay are a key reason that few of them expect to stay in the charity world throughout their professional careers — and even fewer desire to become top leaders of nonprofit organizations. ...In addition, charity workers said that factors like low pay are driving men and minority groups out of the field in disproportionate numbers, contributing to a lack of diversity within the profession. Moreover, charities tend to pay women lower salaries for the same work, participants said.
“A lot of us have gone to work at organizations that might have a social-justice framework, but when we get there we find that racism and sexism are still alive and well, and the glass ceiling still exists,” said Julia Beatty, a program officer at the Twenty-First Century Foundation, a New York group that raises money to help blacks promote social change.
Add ageism to the list. I've been in or around non-profits for most of my career and the low pay and lousy working conditions have driven me out.