About NPEU

 
 

We’re Strengthening Our Nonprofits

 
 
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We are the union for nonprofit professionals.

Joining with NPEU, the Nonprofit Professional Employees Union, allows nonprofit professionals to enhance their nonprofit organizations by strengthening their voice in the workplace. In their respective nonprofit organizations, our members have established standards for fair and equal treatment of nonprofit professionals by negotiating contracts that improved pay, benefits, and working conditions.

We understand nonprofit workplaces.

We understand that nonprofits are uniquely mission-driven and have specific financial concerns. We know from experience that by joining together nonprofit professionals can enhance the work of their organization by negotiating a contract that best fits the needs of employees, management, and the organization’s mission.

We want to make our nonprofits better.

We strongly support the missions of our nonprofits and want our organizations to thrive. By coming together, we are able to ensure we have the necessary resources for our organizations to be successful. Our negotiated contracts put in place a process for workplace collaboration which creates better, productive nonprofit organizations.

 
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Where We Work

 
 
 
 
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Our Structure

Our union is led by and for us—the NPEU members. NPEU members directly elect officers who, with the help of NPEU staff, ensure day-to-day operations run smoothly. The officers, along with one elected representative from each unit, serve on the Executive Board. The officers work with the rest of the Executive Board to carry out the will of the members.

 
 

NPEU Leadership and Staff

 
 
 

President

Amy Chin-Lai, Action Squared

Secretary-Treasurer

Andy Lawhead, Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity

Vice President of Stewards

Amina Kranson, Pittsburgh United

Vice President of Advocacy

Hannah Stephens, Brookings

Vice President of Organizing

John Aspray, Food & Water Watch

Vice President of Member Engagement

Marokey Sawo, Urban Institute

Vice President of Communications

Jordan Reynolds, National Women’s Law Center

International Vice President

Amy Chin-Lai, Action Squared

 


Executive Board

The Executive Board is NPEU’s primary governing body. It consists of (1) the NPEU officers — President, Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President of Stewards, Vice President of Organizing, Vice President of Advocacy, Vice President of Member Engagement, and Vice President of Communications — who are volunteer members directly elected by the entire membership and (2) 14 at-large board members, who are also volunteers directly elected by the entire membership:

Cole Campbell, Urban Institute

Emma Cohn, Economic Policy Institute

Samantha DiFalco, Food & Water Watch

Mia DiFelice, Food & Water Watch

Sarah Eltinge, American Civil Liberties Union

Imogene Johnson, Brookings Institution

Karina Montoya, Open Markets Institute

Linda Morris, American Civil Liberties Union

Jacob Rodriguez, Jobs to Move America

Alex Samuels, DC Jobs With Justice

Morgan Sheryak Hartmann, Friends of the Earth

Justin Singleton, Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Tris Wilson, Action Squared

Kristian Zamora, J Street

Field Representatives

Anya McMurrer

Nancy Yan

Senior Field Representative

Kareem Elrefai

Campaigns Director

Heather Cushman

Finance & Operations Director

Ethan Miller

 
 
 
 
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NPEU + IFPTE

 

The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU), IFPTE Local 70 is an affiliated local union of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE), AFL-CIO and CLC.

 
 
 
 
 

About IFPTE

IFPTE is a nonprofit, employee-based organization, made up of autonomous local affiliates in the U.S. and Canada. IFPTE advocates on behalf of more than 80,000 women and men in professional and technical occupations. Those occupations are primarily professional, including all engineering disciplines, a wide variety of scientific and research professions, lawyers and administrative judges, economists, environmental officers, and urban planners, among others, all within the private, public, and federal sectors. As such, they are lovingly known as the geeks of the labor movement.

Here are examples of a few other affiliates of IFPTE:

NPEU - IFPTE Local 70

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NPEU, IFPTE Local 70 was formed in 1998 after a group of nonprofit employees at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) contacted IFPTE about creating a union. 

IFPTE has been a great resource over the years, providing us with best practices, legal and organizing support, and guidance on a variety of issues. They also provide us access to a network of other organized professionals in related fields and occupations.

Former IFPTE President Paul Shearon voicing support for federal workers during the 2019 government shutdown.

 
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