Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

Your grant calendar is connected to your funder history. If burnout is a familiar feeling, you’re not alone. Today, grant readiness means being able to respond to the right opportunity quickly, strategically, and with a clear sense of who you are and why your work matters. Your meeting notes feed into your cultivation strategy.

Grant Writing

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 15, 2025

Our vision was clear: create an all-in-one digital workspace that eliminates burnout, saves precious time, and leverages the powerful capabilities of AI grant writing tools. Annual Funding Tracker : Develop a year-round pipeline strategy to ensure your grant calendar is both proactive and intentional.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Disconnected calendars, outdated folders, missing attachments, and “Where’s that link again?” Fluid Strategy : You don’t treat your funding calendar like a rigid checklist. Now you’re preparing proposals with joy, urgency, and integrity instead of burnout or shortcuts. messages in Slack don’t just waste time. Ready to Adapt?

Readiness

Center for Major Gifts

APRIL 7, 2025

Staff burnout. If your fundraising plan looks more like a social calendar than a business strategy, youve got a problem. Strategic Fundraising: Chess vs. Checkers Lets contrast two approaches: The School Carnival Method: Heavy on events, light on strategy. Lots of smiles, noise, and sugar highs. Low profit. Temporary buzz. Your choice.

Burnout

Assel Grant Services

JANUARY 6, 2024

Actually, burnout has been around for a long while, recognized in the healthcare and social service industries. The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes burnout as an occupational phenomenon (though it’s not recognized as a medical condition). That’s another buzzword like quiet quitting or hustle culture , right?

Burnout

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The warning signs included the ongoing toxic combination of low pay and overwhelming workloads endemic in nonprofit work that leads to exhaustion, mistakes, and ultimately burnout. In 2019, the World Health Organization defined workplace burnout not as an employee problem, but as an organizational culture and leadership problem.

Burnout

Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

In fact, another trend in the nonprofit sector (and elsewhere) is burnout. Consider blocking your calendar and/or adding your work hours in your email signature as a gentle reminder of when you’re not at work. Block off time in your calendar for focused work, close other apps during this time, and let others know you’re not available.

Burnout

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Taking a break from work gives your brain the chance to reset and recharge, and this is essential to avoiding burnout and staying productive all year long. But mark the rest of your days on your calendar at the beginning of the year, just like you mark your campaigns and events. The workload will rarely be light in fundraising.

IT

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

Part of that education is teaching them about a carefully crafted grant calendar that only includes grants you are (1) eligible to apply for and (2) competitive enough to be considered for selection. This is how a curated calendar helps – you have a game plan for the year. If not, how much time can you dedicate to making that happen?

Grant

Candid

MAY 31, 2023

Check out our specially curated reading list of 16 free nonprofit books perfect for any summertime occasion: If you’re short on time… Is your calendar booked solid with fun plans between Memorial Day and Labor Day? The Idealist’s Survival Kit : 75 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout by Alessandra Pigni.

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CauseVox

MARCH 2, 2021

Although we probably won’t be able to stop having virtual meetings anytime soon, there are some steps you can take to help reduce the impact on their mental and physical health to prevent burnout. This also helps avoid staff burnout, because it prevents your staff from trying to complete work after hours. Check out a few ideas below.

Burnout

Blackbaud

AUGUST 14, 2024

In addition to your code of conduct, the handbook should include your mission statement, school calendar, policies, and procedures. As a former Head of School, I know that parents can be complicated and time consuming to manage, and that management can lead to burnout.

Management

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MAY 13, 2022

In September 2020 I penned an article entitled Battling Burnout as a Grant Professional where I shared several resources to help overcome the struggle. More than avoiding burnout, I want to continue to love this career of ours, and sometimes that means saying no to things, even if I’d love to do it.

Burnout

GiveSmart

AUGUST 12, 2024

Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. By supporting each other, development and marketing team members can avoid harmful, unnecessary stress that can lead to burnout. For example, you might hold two fundraising events during the year.

Retainer

GiveSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. By supporting each other, development and marketing team members can avoid harmful, unnecessary stress that can lead to burnout. For example, you might hold two fundraising events during the year.

Retainer

CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Fight the burnout with Kelly McLaughlin, Fundraising + Strategic Planning Consultant. Most of us were already fighting off burnout before a global pandemic, but after a year of social distancing, lay offs, working from home, and scrambling to make ends meet, burnout is a huge threat. It’s been a long year.

Fundraising

Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

If you miss this deadline, it may be a full calendar year or two before you have the opportunity to apply again. The top reasons for vacancies: salary competition (72%), budget constraints and insufficient funds (66%) and stress and burnout (50%).

Consultant

The Fundraising Coach

MARCH 13, 2023

But in the age of burnout and endless Excel sheets…how do you efficiently utilize data to guide you toward the right decisions? Organize an easy-to-share calendar of upcoming events. It’s common sense that having healthy membership at your organization and a strategic marketing plan go hand-in-hand. Work with who’s already here.

Software

Just Write Grants

MAY 17, 2024

A recent National Council of Nonprofits survey paints a concerning picture: "stress" and "burnout" are driving talented staff out the door. Block the Fun: Schedule time for hobbies in your calendar – treat them as important as any work meeting. Running a nonprofit is a marathon fueled by passion and purpose.

Nonprofit

Just Write Grants

APRIL 16, 2024

Transparency is Key Maintain a clear and user-friendly online calendar that's your central hub for all scheduling information. Motivation and Engagement So now you know how to recruit and schedule your volunteers—how do you avoid burnout and keep those helping hands coming back for more?

Management

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Brooklyn, New York: The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout. The link need to be like so: Africa.

Training

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Be sensitive to pandemic burnout. Much of your nonprofit’s website is likely geared toward the needs and interests of your donors. But what about your volunteers? We suggest you create a dedicated volunteer page on your website. COVID-19 hasn’t been an easy thing to live through for anyone, and that includes your volunteers.

Pass-Through

Blackbaud

JANUARY 18, 2024

During my previous career, I was often on the edge of burnout doing my part to fulfill my organization’s vision of a world free of HIV and hepatitis. This responsibility requires us to recognize we can recover from and prevent burnout, but only when we intentionally approach well-being at all levels of our organization.

Calendar

Grant Professionals Association

APRIL 9, 2025

So, the simplest practice I'm engaging in is making sure I'm getting up from my desk several times a day to avoid burnout. Calendar a Break In January, I went on the Envision retreat in the California redwoods. But doing so protects you from burnout, we must be as gentle to ourselves as we are to others.

Burnout

Just Write Grants

JANUARY 16, 2025

Create a Detailed Grant Calendar A grant calendar is your best friend when it comes to managing deadlines. How to make it work: Use a digital tool like Google Calendar or a project management app (e.g., Avoid BurnoutPace Yourself Grant writing can be intense, and rushing to meet deadlines can lead to burnout.

Proposal

Community Boost

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Content Calendar and Resource Planning A content calendar is crucial for maintaining a consistent presence across all channels. This proactive approach also helps balance workloads and prevents burnout, ensuring high-quality content delivery. Here’s how to strategically plan and execute your content strategy.

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