The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Be sure to check out Cindy’s training “ Fractional Executives: Disrupting Nonprofit Staffing and Careers ” for The Nonprofit Academy at: [link]. A fractional HR professional can provide support beyond the basics including performance management, culture development and creating healthy teams.

Consulting

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. We carefully built a curated AI Prompt Library and trained a custom AI Assistant specifically for nonprofit grant writers. The Hub solves this problem beautifully.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

Tip: Use project management tools like Notion to keep your team aligned. Tip: Link training back to your active grant calendar. To execute efficiently and avoid burnout during the busiest part of the year, your team needs infrastructure that works for you—not against you. Tip: Track how much time you spend recreating the wheel.

Grant

Gail Perry Group

JULY 17, 2025

We see the same patterns over and over: overloaded portfolios, stalled donor conversations, missed opportunities, and burnout. It’s our way of helping both fundraisers and their managers step back, reset, and build a stronger major gifts strategy—one that actually works in the real world.

Burnout

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Learn four ways your CFO can help with your nonprofits grant management. Providing your nonprofits volunteers with the same recruitment, training, mentoring, and appreciation as your employees can reduce turnover and create a better overall volunteer experience. Your nonprofit got a grant now what?

Budget

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 29, 2025

This is especially true for those on small teams or managing grants alongside a dozen other responsibilities. What’s missing from this approach are things like task tracking, draft storage, document management, and narrative re-use tools. Your brain is simply overloaded, and it’s trying to protect itself from burnout.

AI

Blackbaud

MAY 12, 2025

It can also lead to burnout among finance professionals who are constantly chasing approvals and updates instead of working on strategic projects. Set up regular check-ins and, if possible, use collaborative project management tools so everyone can see progress. Use your project management tools to set reminders.

Budget

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 4, 2025

Whether you’re a solo grant writer or part of a small, multitasking team, developing a clear process to evaluate grant opportunities can help you write stronger proposals, avoid burnout, and focus on the funding that truly supports your mission. Will we need to hire, train, or contract new support to fulfill the grant?

Grant

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In natural disasters, the training and quick action of first responders and emergency services save lives and livelihoods. If you don’t have a volunteer management strategy in place, an influx of self-deployed crisis volunteers can increase rather than reduce the chaos. Resources the volunteer can provide (boat, truck, chainsaw, etc.)

Management

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The short answer: change management. What Is Change Management? Put simply, change management is making sure that the human element is always in the picture as new initiatives are put into play. In change management, leadership addresses these essential questions: What does the team know about the change?

CRM

The Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program. From hurdles like volunteer recruitment and burnout to all too common mistakes like disorganized training, its not easy to run an effective program, even if you have the best intentions. Invest in volunteer management software.

Software

Blackbaud

JULY 17, 2025

This often forces people to skip breaks and sacrifice work–life balance, leading straight to burnout. Spotting these signs early gives you room to act—whether through clarifying roles, launching targeted training, or rebalancing workloads—before a small hiccup becomes a full‐blown crisis.

Finance

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

Qgiv

AUGUST 4, 2023

To keep your volunteers as effective as possible, develop a volunteer management process that helps you recruit, train, and steward volunteers for your organization. Having a successful volunteer management strategy will help you increase your volunteer retention rate, which ultimately creates more efficient volunteer staff.

Management

Blackbaud

JUNE 17, 2024

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. Some provide mindfulness training, group activities, and employee assistance programs. Only then can we address the issue.

Burnout

Blue Avocado

AUGUST 13, 2024

And as such deserve to be managed and monitored accordingly. Clarice Williams from WEBS Training Center Lack of succession planning Not having an active succession plan. It’s a job that people need to be trained and educated to take on, not a social gathering.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. For example, a nonprofit looking to hire a volunteer manager might list 2-5 years of leadership experience in addition to a certain amount of hours spent volunteering and an undergraduate degree. Provide relevant training and resources.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Hard skills are measurable technical skills or certifications such as CRM management proficiency. For example, a nonprofit looking to hire a volunteer manager might list 2-5 years of leadership experience in addition to a certain amount of hours spent volunteering and an undergraduate degree. Provide relevant training and resources.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

You and your grantees are driven by a passion for your mission that sometimes leads to burnout. As a grantmaking organization focused on the success of your grantees, it is essential to have a process in place to manage personnel changes—for both you and your grantees—so everyone stays informed and on schedule.

Policy

Blackbaud

AUGUST 14, 2024

If your enrollment management system has customizable admissions checklists, make sure both your handbook and code of conduct are on them. 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

Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

picking the kids up from school), optimize time management (e.g., In fact, another trend in the nonprofit sector (and elsewhere) is burnout. One reason many people prefer to work from home is the potential for better work-life balance. It enables you to tailor work schedules to better fit lifestyles (e.g., to let the dog out).

Burnout

Just Write Grants

APRIL 16, 2024

But managing this passionate crew isn't always a walk in the park. Invest in training and development opportunities to help them grow their skills and feel confident in their roles. Registration and guest management: Friendly and welcoming volunteers to greet attendees and handle check-in.

Management

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Without the resources for a dedicated HR staff, the directors and managers of many nonprofits, charities, and libraries take on HR tasks themselves — there is simply no one else to do it. In fact, this is a common reason for burnout. If you don't have trained or dedicated HR staff, obtain HR expertise on an as-needed basis.

Consulting

Candid

MARCH 11, 2024

In addition, between 2016 and 2022, steadily increasing shares of both BIPOC and white respondents reported receiving peer support, training on staff management and supervision, coaching and executive coaching, and internal mentorship. What about positive factors such as training, mentorship, and other supports?

Nonprofit

Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows.

AI

Greater Giving

AUGUST 13, 2024

While many challenges arise, one stands out as the most significant: recruiting, training, and retaining volunteers. A staggering 52% of school fundraising professionals report managing volunteers as their biggest hurdle. Burnout : Overworked volunteers can become disillusioned and leave.

Fundraising

Bonterra

MARCH 13, 2024

With less Reduce staff burnout and turnover by adding critical capacity and expertise to your team. Analysis of your support cases to identify common challenges and prioritize the right trainings for your team. Advance your team's skillset and technical knowledge with up to four hours per month of training with a dedicated expert.

Fundraising

The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

As a nonprofit professional, you understand the challenges of managing a robust volunteer program. Hurdles like volunteer recruitment , volunteer burnout, and disorganized training can make your program less effective. Invest in volunteer management software. Invest in volunteer management software.

Software

GiveSmart

AUGUST 12, 2024

The organizational benefits are endless when these teams work together: Save time and money: In terms of nonprofit financial management, coordination can lead to cost savings through greater efficiency. Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. Request a demo today.

Retainer

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. It was a lot, all at once.

Burnout

Blackbaud

MARCH 11, 2024

The Benefits of AI to Major Gift Fundraisers Fundraising is an industry that faces high stress and burnout. Train employees on AI usage : While AI can help us out in many ways, it’s important to double-check its work. Train employees on AI best practices, such as reviewing AI-written communications before hitting send.

AI

Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Sarah Potts is the Community Manager at Not For Sale, and that is her challenge. They offer training, education, and employment opportunities, as well as working to inform companies and consumers of the social impact of their supply chains and purchasing decisions. Their work is very different in each of these locations.

Media

GiveSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

The organizational benefits are endless when these teams work together: Save time and money: In terms of nonprofit financial management, coordination can lead to cost savings through greater efficiency. Reduce burnout: When these departments help each other out, it can reduce strain on individual team members. Request a demo today.

Retainer

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Managing time. You need to learn to manage your time so that you get done what you need to get done and say “no” to the rest. A leader who can’t manage their time is distracted and disorganized, always working on things at the last minute. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were more hours in the day to get stuff done?

Nonprofit

Bonterra

APRIL 11, 2024

Securely manage extensive supporter records and transform data into action with tailored asks, use-case-specific predictive analytics models, and more in a robust and reliable digital platform. Securely manage supporter data. Your message is too important to get lost. Unlock more of your nonprofit’s digital fundraising potential.

Fundraising

Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Retention is everything your organization does to keep the volunteers you recruit, like providing proper training and management , aligning volunteer assignments with individual volunteers’ interests, or working hard to create personal relationships with your volunteers. Use current volunteers as a resource.

Pass-Through

Candid

MAY 23, 2024

Organizations might experience a strain on veterans service providers, burnout among staff, or challenges in program sustainability due to the increased demand for services while dealing with limited resources themselves,” said Dougherty. How can funders offer visibility and create change?

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