Mission Service Allies

For years, the requirements and layering compliance issues of running the corporate and human resource requirements of nonprofit businesses have grown in complexity. In 2023, NAO began researching if the “co-employment” model could be a solution for nonprofits to provide better benefits, fill a need for human resources support, and decrease employment liability. NAO is excited to announce the recent establishment of a charitable LLC, Mission Service Allies, which will provide back-office administrative services, including Professional Employer Organization (PEO) services, to our nonprofit membership.

Mission Service Allies is partnering with Amplify HR to offer PEO services. Amplify has created a custom package offering with heavily discounted rates for our membership. In future years, Mission Service Allies plans to add additional services, such as bookkeeping and technology solutions, among others. Read the white paper, From Fragmented to Shared: A New Model for Nonprofit Employment, or watch a video summary below.

Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs) are human resources (HR) and benefits solutions for small to midsize businesses. A PEO acts as a “co-employer” that provides human resource and administrative services for businesses and employees. Co-employment is a contractual relationship in which a business and a PEO share certain employment responsibilities. These responsibilities are clearly agreed upon in legal agreements between the two entities.

In addition to services offered by typical PEOs, this program will also offer member organizations the opportunity to take part in specialized services specifically designed for nonprofit organizations including bookkeeping, record keeping, technology support and other possible services often needed by nonprofits.

Our hope is that by our members utilizing these PEO services, they will:

• Minimize the equity gap for nonprofit employees by rewarding greater pay equity through the PEO system, increasing worker morale and decreasing turnover,
• Reduce risk relating to employment and nonprofit compliance,
• Reduce administrative tasks on nonprofit leadership, allowing for more time to further the mission and services to communities,
• Provide a launching pad for new nonprofits to get up and running quickly and effectively,
• Decreases nonprofit organizations’ benefits costs, and
• ALL of this leads to more effective and efficient use of donated dollars and better outcomes for communities!