Nonprofit Professional Employees Union

What Nonprofit Professional Employees Union does

The Nonprofit Professional Employees Union (NPEU) is a labor union representing professional employees at nonprofit organizations in the United States, operating as IFPTE Local 70 under the AFL-CIO umbrella. Headquartered in Washington, DC, NPEU helps nonprofit workers form organizing committees, seek voluntary recognition from management, and negotiate first collective bargaining agreements. Represented bargaining units span progressive think tanks, advocacy organizations, legal and immigration nonprofits, policy research institutions, and civic engagement groups, including Economic Policy Institute, Center for American Progress, Community Change, Brookings Institution, Urban Institute, ACLU, Food & Water Watch, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. As of 2024-2025, NPEU represents workers at more than 50 nonprofit organizations with thousands of members, having roughly doubled its membership under President Amy Chin-Lai, who was appointed Interim President in Fall 2023 and subsequently elected to the role.

NPEU's core service is union representation: staff support, contract negotiation, grievance handling, steward training, and enforcement of collectively bargained provisions such as annual cost-of-living wage increases (typically 2.5-4.5%), expanded parental leave (up to 16 weeks), just-cause termination protections, anti-discrimination language, and transparent salary bands. The organization runs a Bargaining Academy and a monthly steward training series to develop internal leadership capacity. Its go-to-market motion is community-led field organizing rather than traditional sales: workers initiate organizing at their own employer, NPEU provides the structural and legal support to achieve voluntary recognition or an NLRB election, and the union grows one bargaining unit at a time.

Revenue is generated through member dues paid by represented nonprofit professionals, negotiated as part of each collective bargaining agreement; the organization is member-funded and does not report revenue publicly. Operations are run by a lean staff of approximately 8 employees plus elected officer leadership (President, Vice President, Data and Communications Organizer). NPEU holds no patents, has no technology products or API, and uses standard digital channels (website, social media, press releases) for outreach. The union is governed by an elected executive board composed of member representatives from constituent bargaining units.

Name

Nonprofit Professional Employees Union

Legal name

Nonprofit Professional Employees Union

Website

https://npeu.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

NPEU is a Washington, DC-based labor union (IFPTE Local 70, AFL-CIO) that organizes and represents professional employees at more than 50 U.S. nonprofit organizations, negotiating collective bargaining agreements covering wages, benefits, and workplace protections.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Member Dues: NPEU operates as a labor union funded through membership dues from represented nonprofit professionals. Dues support collective bargaining activities, member representation, and union operations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

NPEU is a labor union (IFPTE Local 70, AFL-CIO) that represents professional employees at nonprofit organizations. It provides union representation services including collective bargaining, contract negotiation, grievance handling, workplace advocacy, and member support to improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for nonprofit workers across the United States.

Product overview

NPEU is a labor union organization operating as IFPTE Local 70 that provides union representation services to professionals at nonprofit organizations. Rather than a technology product portfolio, NPEU offers union organizing, collective bargaining representation, contract negotiation, member advocacy, and workplace support services. The union connects nonprofit workers to strengthen their workplaces through collective action, with represented organizations including Economic Policy Institute, Center for American Progress, Community Change, and over 50 other nonprofits across the United States.

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Problem solved

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Products and services

• Union Representation Services NPEU provides union representation for professionals employed at nonprofit organizations, enabling collective bargaining, workplace advocacy, contract negotiation, grievance handling, and member support to strengthen workplaces and ensure fair employment conditions. Services target nonprofit workers at think tanks, advocacy groups, research institutions, and social justice organizations.
• Collective Bargaining and Contract Negotiation Negotiation of collective bargaining agreements covering wages, benefits (including up to 16 weeks parental leave), healthcare premium coverage, retirement benefits, just cause protections, anti-harassment and anti-discrimination language, diversity and equity provisions, and transparent salary bands for nonprofit workers.
• Bargaining Academy and Steward Training Training program for union stewards and members covering contract enforcement, representation skills, and union leadership development for nonprofit professionals across NPEU bargaining units.

Named customers16 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and regional.

• International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNPEU is a local union (Local 70) of IFPTE, an AFL-CIO affiliated international labor federation. This affiliation provides NPEU with structural support, collective bargaining resources, and connection to the broader labor movement.
• AFL-CIOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNPEU operates under AFL-CIO umbrella as IFPTE Local 70. The relationship connects nonprofit worker organizing to the largest labor federation in the United States.
• Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIOregionalStrategic or Co-development PartnerLocal labor council that honored NPEU President Amy Chin-Lai with the inaugural Emerging Leader Award at the 2025 Evening with Labor celebration.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The NewsGuild-CWA: CWA-affiliated union representing journalists, digital media workers, and nonprofit media employees. Comparable to NPEU in organizing white-collar professionals at mission-driven organizations and securing first contracts in policy and advocacy-adjacent workplaces.
• Writers Guild of America East: Represents writers, editors, and other media professionals, including staff at nonprofit publications and advocacy organizations. Comparable model of professional-grade collective bargaining at mission-oriented employers with similar contract structures.
• Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU): AFL-CIO affiliated union representing office, professional, and technical employees across multiple sectors including nonprofits. Most direct peer to NPEU in terms of representing white-collar professional workers in similar settings, though NPEU is exclusively focused on the nonprofit sector.

Emerging players

• Union of Concerned Scientists: A nonprofit organization representing scientific and technical professionals that operates some union-like collective advocacy functions. Adjacent peer reflecting the same constituency of nonprofit professionals NPEU organizes.
• National Nurses United (NNU): Independent, fast-growing union that organized significant portions of nonprofit hospital and healthcare workforces in recent years. Comparable trajectory of building union density within the nonprofit sector through first-contract campaigns.
• Doctors Council SEIU: A union of physicians and healthcare professionals, primarily at nonprofit hospitals. Comparable as a professional-employee union built around a specific white-collar, mission-driven workforce within the nonprofit ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• Service Employees International Union (SEIU): One of the largest unions in North America, SEIU represents millions of workers including significant nonprofit healthcare and social service employees. Operates broadly in the same nonprofit organizing space as NPEU but at much greater scale and scope.
• AFL-CIO: National labor federation under which NPEU operates. Represents the broader institutional environment of organized labor that NPEU both draws from and serves within.
• International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE): NPEU's direct parent union. Represents tens of thousands of professional and technical employees across public and private sectors. Provides the federation infrastructure under which NPEU operates and is the closest institutional peer.
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT): AFL-CIO affiliated union representing educators, public employees, and professional workers including those in nonprofit-affiliated roles. Comparable in its professional-employee orientation and AFL-CIO federation membership.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

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