Blackbaud

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I had many moments when I was on the edge of burnout doing my part to move the mission forward. Across the sector, burnout and its consequences are widespread. According to the Well-being Project , changemakers experience high levels of burnout, stress, depression, chronic illness, and weak personal relationships.

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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. Reduced staff burnout : Conduct regular wellness surveys to measure mental health and workload satisfaction.

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Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

Burnout and compassion fatigue are all too familiar in this sector. She has over 17 years of experience working in social services and nonprofit organizations as a social worker, nonprofit consultant, and grant professional. Stress, fear, anxiety, sadness, frustration, etc.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Yes, I have worked as a solo grant professional within a larger organization and as a lone grant consultant, working from home with no official colleagues to speak of. So, to help with your sanity, increase job performance, and keep burnout at bay, here are my suggestions for the friends you will need to be the best grant pro you can be.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After over 25 years in the nonprofit and consulting sector, reading a job announcement like that would raise a huge red flag. Why would I want to consult or work for an organization that demanded perfection in every grant application? But it can be a slippery slope, leading to missed opportunities, burnout, and unnecessary stress.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 12, 2024

Unfortunately, the grant writing field seems to be experiencing the same burnout and fatigue that is impacting other job sectors including education and healthcare. Hiring a grant consultant to outsource tasks can help current fundraising staff avoid burnout and focus on other vital work.

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Blue Avocado

APRIL 5, 2022

We’ve all seen cultural problems: low morale, burnout, turnover, lackluster results, low client satisfaction, and donor attrition. We hire new staff, we hold team-building events, we might even bring in a consultant to determine the causes.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Our team has had an ongoing focus on overall wellness, mental health, and mindfulness, given that our work as grant professionals is very sedentary and has a high rate of burnout. As grant professionals, we’re constantly focused on deadlines, applications, and making a difference for the causes we care about. Share in the comments below.

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Future Fundraising Now

JULY 1, 2024

Here are the 5 most-read Future Fundraising Now blog posts in the month of June: 5 serious fundraising mistakes that you might be making Good fundraising is much more than well-written copy The dark secret of “churn-and-burn” fundraising How to prevent donor burnout Does your fundraising mean anything at all to your donors?

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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. Once you have considered your needs and your family’s needs, consult your fundraising plan for your organization’s needs. If you take a summer vacation every year, mark that off.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I’m very concerned about quality, burnout, and how to communicate to leadership that I need more time and commitment from the project team to plan and write proposals. appeared first on DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services. What would you recommend? Dear Heroic Grant Pro, . What would you recommend?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

In fact, this is a common reason for burnout. This new discount program allows TechSoup member organizations to directly communicate with an HR expert by requesting two- or four-hour consultation packages. These consultation hours can be divided up and used across multiple sessions, with each session having a fifteen-minute minimum.

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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. Yes, I’m looking at you consultant who decided to build your own business, be your own boss. What do you do if the boss in that scenario is you? Essentially, I am looking in the mirror.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

Rebellion Against Burnout: Rest as a Revolutionary Act Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry isn’t just about catching some Zs. We can reduce burnout, reclaim our time, and refuse to participate in a system that values products over people. So here’s to more naps, less burnout, and a fairer world for all of us!

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 10, 2024

Our Tendencies shape every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively with ourselves and others. Don’t change yourself, just hack your Tendency! How are you motivated? Do you ever have trouble meeting your goals?

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The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 17, 2024

All of this can lead to burnout or meltdown. Make this year the year you improve your own odds. Thomas Boyd is Chief Editorial Consultant for The Grantsmanship Center and an independent consultant to nonprofit organizations. © Copyright 2024, The Grantsmanship Center

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are only so many hours in the workday, and to keep burnout at bay, no one should work until midnight regularly to get all the grants submitted. DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services, LLC is so excited to be season 6 sponsors for Fundraising HayDay , a podcast about grants and such. Based on that….

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 27, 2022

Taking this frantic approach is a recipe for burnout. In my grant writing consulting work, I take an entirely different approach. I teach this exact system to students in my Grant Writing Made Easy course because I know that not all small and growing nonprofits can afford to hire a grant writing consultant. . …Work harder.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

A recent Harvard Business School study compared two groups of consultants—one using AI tools and the other not—performing the same workplace tasks such as writing, analysis, and strategy. Yet using AI adoption primarily to maximize time and cost efficiency will only exacerbate the burnout crisis in the sector.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 8, 2024

It includes leading activities meant to build a positive workplace environment, like hosting fun events for your team to get to know each other or promoting work-life balance to help reduce burnout. Hire an HR consultant. Loftus is a Founding Partner of and National Director for Astron Solutions, a compensation consulting firm.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 5, 2022

When I founded my grant writing consultancy back in 2015, I knew that I wanted to serve the small nonprofits that make a big impact in our communities. They’re tired, often close to burnout. Since then, I’ve seen my clients and students doing the most important work there is. Often this is work that shouldn’t even have to be done.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 12, 2010

But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. Pamela Grow is a nonprofit consultant and writes “Pamela’s Grantwriting Blog” ( www.pamelasgrantwritingblog.com ). Leadership is an active role; ‘lead’ is a verb. BILL OWENS. Learn how to delegate. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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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.

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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.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Learn how to build a powerful individual giving strategy for a small nonprofit with Kelly McLaughlin, Fundraising + Strategic Planning Consultant. Fight the burnout with Kelly McLaughlin, Fundraising + Strategic Planning Consultant. It’s been a long year. We’ll go deep in understanding what stress us out and how to deal with it.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Insufficient staffing and employees’ lack of a voice are adding to the problem in Palmer’s view, especially on frontline medical teams where burnout and stress are already high. It was pretty biased and clearly an effort to scare people, though it seemed to have language in it so they weren’t breaking the law.

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Bonterra

MARCH 13, 2024

With less Reduce staff burnout and turnover by adding critical capacity and expertise to your team. Streamline time and money spent on repetitive data hygiene activities and third-party consultants. Remove administrative burden so that you can focus on your mission and supporters, not technology.

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The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Hurdles like volunteer recruitment , volunteer burnout, and disorganized training can make your program less effective. She is a certified Pardot Consultant and Marketing Cloud Email Specialist, a fan of automation and reporting, a lover of animals, and devourer of popcorn.

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Just Write Grants

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

You're a Jack-of-All-Trades Juggling multiple roles can lead to burnout. A grant writer can identify new funding sources, expand your financial portfolio, and alleviate the worry of resource scarcity. A grant writer focuses on securing funds, allowing you to channel your energy into managing and expanding your programs effectively.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Figuring out which routine tasks cost you a lot of willpower (hello, phone call to request a meeting with a potential funder) and which tasks are relatively low in their willpower cost can help you in scheduling things to maximize your time and energy while mitigating fatigue and burnout.

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Candid

MARCH 12, 2025

Based on my 25+ years working in nonprofit technology and consulting, here are some ideas on nonprofit survival strategies. This is unsustainable; over time, it can only lead to staff burnout and organizational exhaustion. Some organizations may go offline unexpectedlybecause theyve lost staff, data, funding, or other resources.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The data comes from a new study of healthcare labor market projections from national management consultancy Mercer in a report titled Future of the U.S. COVID related stress and burnout lead the reasons for the shortfall. By 2022, 100,000 registered nurses had left the workforce because of stress, burnout, and retirement.

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Blackbaud

JANUARY 16, 2025

While it might sound simple to pick a challenge, three of the top five perceived dysfunctions in the sector, Resistance to Change and Rigid Structures, Lack of Inclusion and Empowerment in Decision-Making, and Staff Burnout and Unrealistic Expectations, are connected to how challenges are named, selected, and addressed.

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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. Well cover everything from showing appreciation to finding the best software partner or consultant. Invest in volunteer management software.

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