The Workers Lab

“The 990 is reviewed by the Director of Finance Operations before filifing and is given to the Finance Committee and the Board after filing.”

“The organization uses a survey of Northern California Nonprofit salaries to determine the salary levels for all employees. The Board of Directors independently reviews the salary for the CEO as part of the process of passing the annual operating budget.”

“The organization makes its 1023 form, organizing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available upon request.”

“In 2019, each Director signed a Conflict of Interest Statement. During our bi-annual Board meetings, Directors were expected to recuse themselves on voting matters where there could be a conflict of interest. Minutes of Board meetings reflected when a Board member disclosed that they had a conflict of interest and how it was managed. In 2020, we worked on expanding our process for regularly and consistently monitoring and enforcing compliance with the conflict of interest policy.”

“Program Service Expenses 558,387, Grants and allocations 8,088, Revenue 0 Design Sprint Using Google s Design Sprint methodology, we take an intensive, time-bound approach to solving problems that reduce risk when bringing a new product to market. We do these once a year, in partnership with keyfunders and partners.”

“Program Service Expenses 428,917, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Learning Hub Our Learning Hub is a tool that helps make sense of everything were learning from our investments. It is meant to inform future investments and to engage anyone and everyone interested in what it means to give new ideas that increase power for workers a chance to succeed and flourish. The Learning Hub will curate and house our learning, offer resources and mentorship, and showcase innovators that are giving life to the most promising ideas aimed at increasing power for workers.”

“Program Service Expenses 220,243, Grants and allocations 65,000, Revenue 0 OSF and Gig Worker Learning Project In 2021, wrapped up a special project funded by Open Society Foundations through which we studied the impact of whether and how distributing emergency cash helped worker organizations build worker power. Following our work in 2020, TWL partnered with the Workers Defense Project in 2021 to distribute an emergency grant fund of 40,000 to continue evaluating what strategies work to build worker power alongside providing cash grants. During this time, TWL also launched a national participatory research project in partnership with Aspen Institute to deepen our understanding of gig workers and gig work. Between these two projects, we spent 220,243, of which 65,000 went out in grants to power building organizations.”

“Other Fee for Service - Program Consultants Innovation Fund 11,000 Program Consultants Design Sprint 380,295 Program Consultants Lerning Hub 143,675 Program Consultants OSF Gig Worker Learning Project 140,000 Program Consultants Covid-19 Workers Fund 113,000 Program Consultants Canary 215,523 Other Fee for Service for Program 3,977 Other Fee for Service Management General 22,109 Other Fee for Service Fundraising 1,123”