Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Similarly, in the nonprofit sector, well-funded organizations are already leveraging AI to increase efficiency and reduce burnout, while smaller nonprofitsoften serving the most marginalized communitiesare being left behind. This includes not just purchasing tools but also covering costs for training, maintenance, and capacity building.

AI

Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 25, 2025

Define SMART outcomes: Swap broad objectives for measurable goals like, “Train 25 youth by Q4, with 80% finding employment within six months.” Team burnout is real: Scrambling at the last minute affects morale and productivity. Want more support, templates, and training to help you avoid these errors from the start?

Proposal

Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Candid’s data science manager explains how AI technology is trained on previously created data and can amplify the biases of its human creators—with harmful effects. Doing good with AI tools: Navigating ethical considerations for the social sector. Is your organization planning to develop an AI tool?

Ethics

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]. This guest post is from Cindy Wagman, the founder of [link]. She shares a powerful way nonprofits are bringing in top executive expertise in a new way.

Consulting

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 9, 2025

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. Invest in templates and training Smart tools pay for themselves. Tip: Track how much time you spend recreating the wheel.

Grant

Wild Apricot

JULY 16, 2025

Educational resources: Host staff and volunteer training materials on your site, while Facebook groups foster ongoing conversations and peer support. By allocating just a few hours a week using the steps above, you’ll build a meaningful presence without burnout. Remember, nonprofit social media success starts with a clear strategy.

Media

Gail Perry Group

JULY 17, 2025

We see the same patterns over and over: overloaded portfolios, stalled donor conversations, missed opportunities, and burnout. With the right coaching and training from our team, your MGO’s can build stronger qualification approaches so that gift officers can focus on the right donors at the right time.

Burnout

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.

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. Lack of Training for New Staff: Provide training for new staff and stakeholders on the budget approval process and tools. The goal is to work smarter, not harder!

Budget

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 23, 2025

We even provide ongoing training and coaching so everyone on your team can easily utilize it. If burnout is a familiar feeling, you’re not alone. And if you don’t have time to build that system from scratch, our Grant Launch service sets it up for you. No tech background required. So, Is AI Coming for Your Job?

Grant Writing

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. This is the psychological toll of working in a fragmented system. It’s not that you don’t care.

AI

Candid

JUNE 25, 2025

She emphasizes the importance of strengthening mutual support, including through resource and knowledge sharing, and practicing “ruthless prioritization” to maintain stability, ensure continuity, and avoid staff burnout.

Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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. How can nonprofit leaders prevent burnout when theyre expected to perform minor miracles on a regular basis?

Budget

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 21, 2025

Why Starting From Scratch Hurts Your Grant Writing Constantly writing grants from scratch is more than tedious; it actively contributes to burnout and cognitive overload. To support that goal, we’ve created a high-level training that includes templates, tools, and a step-by-step system. Want to see all of The Hub’s features?

Grant Writing

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

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 31, 2025

Now you’re preparing proposals with joy, urgency, and integrity instead of burnout or shortcuts. This service provides comprehensive strategy support and hands-on training, ensuring your team quickly masters and confidently implements the technology. Ready to Adapt? A transformation is unfolding in philanthropy.

Readiness

Candid

MARCH 12, 2025

Cross training, cross investment, and cross sharing of data may become much more critical. This is unsustainable; over time, it can only lead to staff burnout and organizational exhaustion. Consider instead the art of ruthless prioritization.

Nonprofit

The Fundraiser Coach

JUNE 9, 2025

First we started with training wheels. Once she got confident with the training wheels, we practiced without them. Even if no one ever trained us. Ever thought about who doesn’t feel imposter syndrome? It’s a kid learning to ride a bike. I remember clearly when my daughter was learning. She did fall.

Burnout

Blackbaud

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In natural disasters, the training and quick action of first responders and emergency services save lives and livelihoods. Screen Every Volunteer Spontaneous crisis volunteers need to be screened so they can be given suitable roles and be properly registered and trained. Resources the volunteer can provide (boat, truck, chainsaw, etc.)

Management

Candid

MARCH 5, 2025

People with psychological capital demonstrate higher levels of job satisfaction, engagement, and performance and experience lower rates of workplace burnout. Conversely, without psychological capital, even financially secure nonprofits may struggle during tumultuous times, as burnout undermines effectiveness and innovation.

Burnout

The Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

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. To improve your volunteer programs use of technology, consider taking training courses.

Software

Blackbaud

DECEMBER 4, 2024

If you don’t plan for time commitment and keep an eye on burnout, you run the risk of losing significant ground trying to implement new technology. Start : Explain what the team needs to start doing differently (start training on the new system, start using integrated donation forms , start recording all donor interactions in the CRM, etc.)

CRM

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

Candid

MARCH 13, 2025

Addressing burnout and financial strain to support nonprofit workers and communities Nonprofit workers are struggling with burnout, work-life balance, and financial hardship, which affect both their well-being and organizational success. Why were all burned out and what to do about it.

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? YOU matter!

Burnout

Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 5, 2022

They’re tired, often close to burnout. That’s why I continue to offer free grant writing training opportunities. Free Grant Writing Training. The post Why I offer free grant writing training opportunities online appeared first on Grant Writing Made Easy. And yet, their work is underfunded. And I thank you for doing it.

Grant Writing

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

Candid

OCTOBER 9, 2024

An inclusive approach actively engages staff across all departments, roles, and leadership levels to create an environment where diverse perspectives are valued, equitable access to AI tools and training is provided, and the unique needs of different user groups are considered. How can funders support inclusive AI adoption?

AI

CauseVox

JANUARY 20, 2022

It has been a long time coming, due to: Toxic workplace cultures Systemic overwork and burnout Ineffective diversity, equity, and inclusion A failure to sustain the well-being and growth of employees Frustration and restlessness caused by the ongoing global pandemic. The Great Resignation is underway.

Fundraising

Candid

JUNE 10, 2024

Diversify and train the reviewer pool. A diverse reviewer pool is representative of different backgrounds and experiences, genders, regions, levels of education, institution sizes, disciplines, nonprofit experience, and/or areas of specialty or advanced training. Provide feedback for unsuccessful applications.

Applicant

Pamela Grow

MARCH 1, 2023

GiveButter reported that burnout is affecting more than half of all nonprofit employees. 4) Offer help: When you resign from your position, offer to help train your replacement. If you’re considering quitting your nonprofit job, you’re not alone. There’s nothing better than finding the right fit for you.

Nonprofit

Blue Avocado

AUGUST 13, 2024

Clarice Williams from WEBS Training Center Lack of succession planning Not having an active succession plan. The problem of keeping qualified volunteers on your board moving into the officer positions so burnout doesn’t happen and your nonprofit is looking and moving forward with fresh new blood and ideas.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Following along with our volunteer manager example, a nonprofit might list volunteer scheduling, outreach, onboarding, supervision, and training as part of the new hire’s duties. Provide relevant training and resources. Preferred skills. For this reason, your organization can list preferred skills in its job description.

Nonprofit

Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

Following along with our volunteer manager example, a nonprofit might list volunteer scheduling, outreach, onboarding, supervision, and training as part of the new hire’s duties. Provide relevant training and resources. Preferred skills. For this reason, your organization can list preferred skills in its job description.

Nonprofit

Blackbaud

APRIL 2, 2024

You and your grantees are driven by a passion for your mission that sometimes leads to burnout. Consider the level of database training the user has. If they are not trained on a powerful feature—or one with access to sensitive personal information—it is best to not provide access now. Working in the nonprofit sector is hard.

Policy

Candid

MARCH 7, 2024

In fact, another trend in the nonprofit sector (and elsewhere) is burnout. Moreover, the absence of a daily commute can give you hours back each week. But despite these substantial benefits, working from home is not a universal cure for stress.

Burnout

Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

Just then, angel-in-training Clarence intervenes. Research has found that doing this daily for three weeks cultivates happiness, well-being, and life satisfaction and can reduce stress, anxiety, and burnout. We must make time to be silly, joyous, grateful, and indulgent.

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