Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers?
The article focuses on employees of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as an essential component of community resilience. Forty women, professionals in the helping professions, were interviewed about their work experiences as employees in social service NPOs. The interviews were conducted from 2019 to 2...
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| description | The article focuses on employees of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as an essential component of community resilience. Forty women, professionals in the helping professions, were interviewed about their work experiences as employees in social service NPOs. The interviews were conducted from 2019 to 2020, mostly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand those employees’ perceptions of work conditions, contracting-out of social services, professional community and relationships with co-workers, work–life balance, job satisfaction, and their future plans. The findings present loneliness at work and lacking of a sense of community and a strong sense of mission while facing a challenging environment and work conditions in NPOs. In the discussion, we offer a complementary understanding of solidarity and resilience in NPOs—and we elaborate on the lack of professional “communitiness” and its possible harmful effect on the resilience of wider communities in times of crisis—when resilience is mostly needed. The paper presents NPOs employees as critical actors in producing resilience, hence there exists a need to examine their work environment, job perceptions, and the latter’s contribution to their own resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-916f6bc5d2624bf2bf83f24aa4d75b332023-11-18T21:21:39ZengMDPI AGSocieties2075-46982023-07-0113716410.3390/soc13070164Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers?Inbar Livnat0Michal Almog-Bar1Center for Israel Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba 8400711, IsraelInstitute for the Study of Civil Society and Philanthropy, the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Wel-Fare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9160401, IsraelThe article focuses on employees of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) as an essential component of community resilience. Forty women, professionals in the helping professions, were interviewed about their work experiences as employees in social service NPOs. The interviews were conducted from 2019 to 2020, mostly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand those employees’ perceptions of work conditions, contracting-out of social services, professional community and relationships with co-workers, work–life balance, job satisfaction, and their future plans. The findings present loneliness at work and lacking of a sense of community and a strong sense of mission while facing a challenging environment and work conditions in NPOs. In the discussion, we offer a complementary understanding of solidarity and resilience in NPOs—and we elaborate on the lack of professional “communitiness” and its possible harmful effect on the resilience of wider communities in times of crisis—when resilience is mostly needed. The paper presents NPOs employees as critical actors in producing resilience, hence there exists a need to examine their work environment, job perceptions, and the latter’s contribution to their own resilience.https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/13/7/164community resiliencecommunitywomennonprofit organizations |
| spellingShingle | Inbar Livnat Michal Almog-Bar Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers? Societies community resilience community women nonprofit organizations |
| title | Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers? |
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| title_short | Who Provides Resilience to the Community Resilience Providers? |
| title_sort | who provides resilience to the community resilience providers |
| topic | community resilience community women nonprofit organizations |
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