Candid
DECEMBER 24, 2024
2: Reduce burnout (28%) The need to address nonprofit staff burnout and ensure their well-being has seen increased attention this year, and it was top of mind for nearly three in 10 respondents. What other factors are driving burnout, and how can we eliminate them? No doubt the burden of paperwork is a part of it.
Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 17, 2025
Grant writer burnout is a widespread issue affecting nonprofit professionals worldwide. Burnout goes beyond mere tiredness. But what’s the single most significant contributor to this burnout, and more importantly, how can you effectively overcome it? It’s not just demanding, it’s downright draining.
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Grant Writing Made Easy
JULY 29, 2025
If you’re a grant writing consultant, it’s buying you a one-way ticket to Grant Writer Burnout Land — a place you definitely don’t want to visit. Your brain is simply overloaded, and it’s trying to protect itself from burnout. The result is decision fatigue , a cognitive state where even simple choices feel draining.
Candid
MARCH 12, 2025
Organizations that currently fit the definition of acceptable can leverage their relative safety to help shelter others: Be ready to extend fiscal sponsorship status to an organization that has its 501(c)(3) status revoked; this may put the sponsoring organization under scrutiny, but it will also help others survive when they have no alternative.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 30, 2020
Employee burnout in the nonprofit sector is a real issue in the best of times, let alone in the midst of a pandemic. Here's are some things you might be doing that will inevitably lead to you burning out, and what to do instead.
Get Fully Funded
JUNE 18, 2023
Fundraising burnout is real and it’s killing too many small nonprofits. Because whether you see it or not; whether you admit it or not; whether you want to accept it or not; you’re headed for (or already in the midst of) burnout. Avoiding Fundraising Burnout Starts With YOU! What Exactly is Burnout? Read that again.
The NonProfit Times
MAY 29, 2024
New data from the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) shows executive and staff burnout top the list of issues. On average, LGBTQ+ identifying leaders reported moderately higher levels of concern about their own burnout than their non-LGBTQ+ identifying counterparts. vice president, research, at CEP, told The NonProfit Times.
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