The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is a U.S.-based nonprofit membership and advocacy organization that organizes and represents nannies, housecleaners, and home-care workers to advance labor protections, fair wages, benefits, and recognition for domestic and care work.
Promotes labor and employment protections for domestic workers including minimum wage and overtime coverage, paid leave and caregiver supports, workplace safety and anti-discrimination measures, pathways to collective action, and policies linking care work to immigration and public-benefit reforms.
Primarily funded by philanthropic foundation grants and individual donations, supplemented by membership support and occasional public grants and underwriting from allied organizations.
Ai-jen Poo (founder and leader), the National Domestic Workers Alliance Action Fund (political/advocacy arm), state and local domestic worker organizations and coalitions, and allied care-and-labor advocates such as caregiving and women’s rights groups.
Non-profit advocacy organization (501(c)(3)) with an affiliated advocacy/action arm
