We are a lab for rest and rejuvenation for do-gooders

Our Mission & Vision:

R&R will change the world by investing in the well-being of nonprofit professionals through rest and rejuvenation solutions with an equity lens.

We envision a world where balance between work and life is celebrated, where leaders feel supported and cherished in their roles, and where the rest and rejuvenation of talent are seen as instrumental to an organization’s success.

Inspired by 20 years of research and practice from the Durfee Foundation’s work on sabbaticals, R&R emerged amidst a growing trend for non-profit professionals and do-gooders: the workplace isn’t working and folks are burning out.

We believe there is a better way. Work hours should be shorter, vacations longer, schedules more flexible, and sabbaticals baked into our organizations. R&R operates through an equity lens, with an understanding of how BIPOC, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, disabled and women leaders experience a double burden that makes the traditional workplace especially unsustainable.

R&R’s guiding values are:

  • Optimism: Our lives and work can be better and we can co-create a vibrant future together.

  • Equity: We fight for a system that works for all, not the few, and work to dismantle systems of oppression.

  • Emergence: The best solutions will be emergent and need to continue to refresh themselves in the months and years ahead.

  • Power of Rest: We reject paradigms of toxic productivity and believe that rest is an essential element towards making humans healthier, communities stronger and society better. Rest and work are not a binary. Work can be restful. Work can be playful. Life can be restful, impactful and powerful.

  • Change Starts from Within: We believe that we must push the systems to adapt but also work from the inside out with each person’s inner wisdom as a powerful driver of change in the world.

  • The Time is Now: With focus and intention this is a moment of great change. We will rest as action. We will act in ways that are rejuvenating.

Who we are

R&R belongs to the nappers, the deep sleepers, and hamock hangers. It belongs to tired folk caring for kids, loved ones and community. R&R belongs to the energy after a long walk. The sounds of the ocean and trees rustling in the forest.

Find info about our team here.

R&R is made possible by:

 R&R: The rest of our lives is a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, a California nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) organization, Tax ID (EIN) 46-1323531.