Meeting This Moment with Focus and Resolve

Dear Friends,

At the National Employment Law Project, our mission has always been rooted in a simple but powerful idea: that every job should be a good job, and that working people deserve dignity, stability, and opportunity.

This moment in our country demands that clarity of purpose.

Across the labor market, we are seeing deep shifts—economic uncertainty, rapid technological change, and renewed challenges to worker protections. At the same time, there is growing urgency among workers, advocates, and policymakers to build an economy that works for everyone. The stakes are high, and the need for focused, effective leadership is clear.

This year, we have navigated significant funding shifts that have impacted the nonprofit sector as a whole, and have had to make difficult organizational changes to ensure NELP’s long-term sustainability. These decisions, including reductions in staff, were not taken lightly, and meant saying goodbye to valued colleagues whose contributions have shaped NELP’s work, and we are deeply grateful for their impact.

At the same time, our efforts to address critical policy needs around wages, unemployment insurance, and access to worker protections remain core to our mission.

Today, NELP is moving forward with a sharpened focus on priority areas where we can make the greatest difference—advancing policies that raise job quality, strengthening worker protections and enforcement, and helping shape the future of work in ways that expand opportunity rather than erode it. Our core commitments remain unchanged: advancing worker power, partnering across states and communities, and driving policy solutions that improve people’s lives. We are aligning our policy, research, and partnerships to deliver more targeted, coordinated, and measurable impact—an approach that will take shape in the months ahead through strategic initiatives and collaborations.

As we move ahead, we look forward to engaging many of you directly in this work, including at our September convening, where we will bring together partners to help shape and advance the next phase of NELP’s impact. There are many ways to be a part of this effort, and we welcome your partnership.

I am grateful to our staff, partners, funders, and the broader community for your continued engagement and support, and for the conversations that will continue to shape this work as we move forward. This is a moment that calls for steadiness, clarity, and resolve—and we are committed to meeting it.

Sincerely,

Rebecca Dixon

President and CEO

National Employment Law Project