Based on data from 18,212 employees and 304 CEOs at 327 organizations, this report shares findings about how things were going at work for employees and leaders in Jewish nonprofit organizations in May 2023.
This report shares data from the Jewish nonprofit sector that we collected in May 2023, before anyone knew how our field’s work and context would change this autumn. It’s important to remember that certain parts of the experience of leaders and employees, and certain parts of CEOs’ relationships with their boards, have changed since our 2023 surveys were in the field. And yet, we firmly believe this report is still valuable for understanding today’s world, and for helping to improve the effectiveness of Jewish nonprofits. Jewish organizations do amazing work, Jewish organizations are under strain, and these findings are a snapshot of the field's workforce and leadership as we entered into this crisis. This report shows the starting point, just before this nightmare began.
This “State of the Jewish Workplace” report is a new format for us. In previous years, Leading Edge published two reports sharing separate insights from the Employee Experience Survey and the CEO Survey. This year, we present one unified report, based on both of those surveys and also informed by all the other ways Leading Edge learns about the field. We hope that this new format will make our findings clearer, more accessible, and more relevant.
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