Senior HR partner not a help desk
Every engagement is led by an HR professional with non-profit experience. Not a rotating queue of ticket-takers.
Non-profits face the same compliance, payroll, and people challenges as for-profit companies. With tighter budgets, board scrutiny, and grant-funded headcount. Humareso gives mission-driven organizations an award-winning HR partner without the cost of an internal HR department.
You did not start a non-profit to write handbooks or chase I-9 forms. But the regulatory floor is the same as any employer. And the consequences of getting it wrong are higher when every dollar is donor-tracked.
There is no HR department. Hiring, terminations, complaints, leave, and policy questions all flow to the ED or operations lead, pulling them away from mission work.
Exempt vs non-exempt misclassification, harassment training requirements, FMLA, state leave laws, ACA reporting. One missed item turns into a board-meeting agenda.
Hiring against restricted funds means tight scope, fast onboarding, and offboarding when the grant ends. Generic HR vendors are not built for that cadence.
Funders, audit committees, and IRS Form 990 increasingly ask for defensible compensation philosophy. Most non-profits have not formalized one.
Mixing volunteers, contractors, interns, and W-2 staff creates classification and wage-and-hour risk that scales with you.
Mission-driven people give until they break. Without intentional engagement and performance practices, retention quietly erodes.
For the people who power the mission.
Humareso embeds with your leadership team as your fractional HR function. You get senior expertise, modern technology, and capacity to scale. Without taking on a full-time HR salary or a benefits-loaded headcount line.
Every engagement is led by an HR professional with non-profit experience. Not a rotating queue of ticket-takers.
Handbook, policies, required postings, training matrix, I-9 audits, and state-by-state leave compliance. Documented and audit-ready.
Allocate labor by program or grant, run multi-state payroll cleanly, and produce the reports your finance team and auditors need.
Compensation philosophy and pay bands grounded in non-profit market data. Ready for Form 990 disclosures and funder questions.
Sourcing, screening, and offer support that respects mission fit and protects your ED’s calendar.
Humareso Engage gives mission-driven teams recognition, performance, and feedback in one place. Built for the people who power the work.
Pick the services that fit. Combine them as you grow. One partner, one invoice.
Straight answers. No sales pitch.
Both. We support organizations from a single program officer through multi-state non-profits with hundreds of employees. Engagements are scoped to your size and growth stage, so you pay for what you actually need.
Yes. We administer multi-state payroll, register for state tax accounts, and stay current on state-specific leave, paid sick time, and harassment training requirements wherever your employees live.
We help you draft offer language that protects both the organization and the employee, allocate labor costs by program or grant in payroll, and plan transitions when funding ends. Including separation, retention bonuses, or repositioning into other funded roles.
Yes. We produce the documentation auditors and the IRS expect: compensation philosophy and pay bands for Form 990, employee classification records, leave policies, and required training logs.
A PEO co-employs your staff and bundles benefits at their rates. Humareso is your HR partner. You keep direct employment, your own benefits broker, and decision authority. We bring senior HR expertise, technology, and compliance horsepower without the co-employment trade-offs.
Most non-profit clients are onboarded within two to four weeks. We start with a quick HR assessment, prioritize the items that reduce risk fastest, and build a 90-day roadmap from there.
Let us show you how Humareso can take HR off your plate, reduce risk, and reinvest your time back into the mission.
No commitment. Confidential consultation.