EpicWorks sets up organizations to achieve greater impact.

EpicWorks provides movement organizations with the values-aligned infrastructure and services they need to fulfill their missions—with confidence. We help strengthen the core of their operations by providing essential, dependable services related to people practices, financial management, legal compliance and organizational health.

What We Offer

EpicWorks offers four service packages:

Co-Employment (Payroll/Benefits), Comprehensive Fiscal Sponsorship, Basic Fiscal Sponsorship and Managed Funds. That includes 501c4 fiscal sponsorship.

See our full set of offerings and related services.

We know that organizations get stronger and achieve greater impact when their financial, legal, and people infrastructure allow them to operate on firm ground, and when their staff/management relationships enable them to perform at a high level.

EpicWorks provides a range of values-aligned systems, solutions, and support that help organizations achieve both. In addition, we provide advantages for employees that are out of reach for many movement organizations.

  • Pro-worker labor relations staff who maintain positive working relationships with unions

  • A professionally facilitated conflict resolution and grievance process

  • High-quality plans covering everything from routine care to chronic illness support, with options for 100% employer-paid plans, including: mental health, dental and vision, IVF services, elective abortion, and gender-affirming care

  • A pension plan for unionized employees represented by Workers United

  • 401(k) plus matching, HSA, Medical FSA and Dependent care FSA

  • Basic life insurance

  • Supplemental life insurance

  • Commuter transit and parking FSA

  • Short-term and long-term disability

  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential support for mental health, financial stress, family caregiving, and legal concerns

who we serve

EpicWorks provides essential systems, solutions, and support to a range of organizations that are working toward racial, gender, economic, environmental, and all forms of justice.

Across the country, these organizations are changing people’s lives for the better by organizing communities, winning campaigns, changing policies, grantmaking, and building power for the many—not the few.

We serve movement organizations operating as c3 nonprofits, c4 nonprofits, LLCs, PACs and more. We also serve networks of organizations that include multiple entities.

Participating Organizations are diverse in size and scope: volunteer collectives just getting started, small projects with very few staff, and established organizations with dozens of staff.

Some join us from their beginning. Others transition to us from different fiscal sponsors or when they need to take their payroll or operations to the next level. EpicWorks provides a responsive and flexible set of services that evolve as organizations grow, face new challenges, and develop new needs.

We began in 2005 as CLASI (Community Labor Administrative Services, Inc.), focused on serving the needs of the Working Families Party. Since then, we have grown to provide services to more than 50 organizations and counting.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

  • “EpicWorks is a lifesaver—and an organization-saver. Running an organization is a test of will and labor of love. Without the partnership and support and infrastructure that EpicWorks contributes to us, I don't know how we would have made it.”

  • “The support we get from EpicWorks for onboarding new staff, offboarding staff and payroll duties is invaluable to our small HR team. The people at EpicWorks are so kind and patient, no matter the amount of emails I send. They are always thorough, thoughtful and ethical.”

  • “EpicWorks allows projects the freedom to be themselves and work in ways that are best for them. They complement our work but do not weigh it down or hinder us. The fact that they are values-aligned is priceless.”

  • “They help me understand what is going on with the financial management of our project and help me find workarounds and solutions to the frequent backlog. They are incredibly clear-headed and resourceful, and full of wise advice about how to deal with challenges.”

  • “Their expertise in HR issues has been exceptionally helpful, including compensation and union contract provisions.”

  • “It is essential to the integrity of our efforts that there is a trusted set of eyes and safeguards in place to ensure the integrity of our finances.”