R&R is a learning organization that operates through grantmaking programs, training and consulting engagements, research projects and thought leadership. We strive for long-term culture change within the nonprofit sector, and operate with a lean team that aims to deliver outsized impact.

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. We believe there is a better way to combat burnout and hustle culture. Work hours should be shorter, vacations longer, schedules more flexible, and sabbaticals and collective rest baked into our organizations.

Our guiding values:

• 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. An understanding of how BIPOC, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent, disabled and women leaders experience a double burden that makes the traditional workplace especially unsustainable.

• 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.