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MACC Zooms In On: Equity and Innovation in Nonprofit Compensation
December 12th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Learn from Vega Mala Consulting how organizations can both take short-term steps and set a long-term direction toward aligning their total compensation packages with justice values. From ending standard compensation practices that widen the wealth gap to moving toward a thriving wage and establishing employer and compensation philosophies that set a foundation for shared expectations across the organization. They'll help us understand and activate their six practices that nonprofits can use to de-link privilege (or, on the other side of the coin, marginalization) from salaries, and reconstruct compensation in ways that are equitable.
About our Speakers:
Vega Subramaniam I have more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit and community organizations as a staff member, board member, executive director, volunteer, and community member. I’ve facilitated leadership workshops, given conference keynote addresses, and presented leadership trainings for college students as well as for local and national organizations. One of my favorite activities is facilitating daylong Intentional Life Planning workshops with Mala.
I also am a social scientist and academic, with 13 years of experience teaching sociology and advising low-income college students and students of color. The common thread that runs through all of these experiences is my love of working with smart, caring people who find themselves ready to explore new pathways, build their leadership strengths and gifts, and/or develop practices to align their lives with their values.
Mala Nagarajan I'm a nonprofit strategist and social entrepreneur with more than 20 years of management, technology, and organizational development (OD) experience spanning the public, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. I am driven by a vision of strong organizations working collaboratively toward a common social purpose. I’m an organizational development geek at heart, and I see my work as learning with you and providing you adaptive capacity and an external perspective.
Whether you are a community-based organization, a national coalition, or international NGO, as a thought partner and resource expert, I aim to increase your impact by improving your people and organizational systems. My organizational consulting focuses on people/human resources and technology management, and how these systems integrate with the rest of your key organizational activities – programs, communications, financials, and resource development.
About Vega Mala
In our experience, we’ve seen that people have passion about their mission and expertise in their field, but they are too often stretched beyond their capacity to manage staff, organizations, and collaborations.
- Leaders burn out
- Staff and volunteers are underused and exploited
- Organizations forfeit resources, like time and money
- Organizational health erodes
- Communities become fractured
- Social movements lose momentum
Our passion is to help people transform, organizations thrive, and collaborations grow stronger.
Our mission is to support our communities through working with change-makers and social justice leaders like you who engage in transformational, culture-shifting work—in our social movements, in our organizations, and within ourselves.
Our strategy is to offer innovative and boundary pushing HR consultation, leadership and career coaching for individuals and teams, and thought leadership.
We envision equitable, nurturing, and enduring communities empowered and embraced by healthy, effective, and sustainable nonprofits, community organizations, and leaders.
Our guiding values are authenticity, courage, continuous learning, care, and equity.
Our goal is to sow the seeds of resiliency and possibility into your leadership, organization, or member-driven work so people stay in community with each other and nurture a culture of collaborative movement-building that fuels long-term, sustained social change.
Our clients are small- to mid-size social justice organizations around the United States.