Healthy and happy staff are more effective and engaged!
One of the biggest barriers for nonprofits to recruit and retain quality employees is the inability to offer valuable and comprehensive compensation packages. We all know it’s not always easy to find affordable, effective ways to increase value in employee packages within nonprofit budget constraints.
“We have had benefits for many years, but our premiums were increasing each year,” says 
Esther Kesler, Payroll & Benefits Coordinator of the Southern Alberta Community Living Association. “We are always aware of rising costs, and we try to do the best for our staff.”
The Southern Alberta Community Living Association (SACLA) has provided benefits to their staff for 30 years. It’s just one of the ways they retain quality employees and community connectors, who are an integral part of their work providing quality serices for individuals living with a developmental disability.
After several years with another benefit provider, SACLA decided to move to OASSIS, a nonprofit that offers employee benefits specifically for nonprofits. ‘We were looking for ways to save our employees and our organization dollars,” Kesler says. “Being able to offer an alternative option like OASSIS was great.”
Employee benefits not only add value to your staff compensation package, but they also promote the health and wellness of your staff. SACLA offers their team benefits like health and dental, long-term disability, life and accidental death insurance, critical illness, health care spending accounts, and more through OASSIS.
Volunteer Alberta partnered with OASSIS 27 years ago for these exact reasons- to help organization build capacity at a much lower cost. When nonprofits choose other nonprofits as vendors, they support and leverage the buying power and capacity of the entire sector. Social enterprise partnerships keep dollars within our sector’s economy and within the nonprofit communities we serve.
Adrienne Vansevenandt
Volunteer Alberta
If you are looking to save money on your benefits or thinking of getting benefits for the first time, contact OASSIS to find the right plan to suit your organization and employees’ needs.
