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. Practice Mindful Time Management – Use time-blocking or productivity techniques like the Pomodoro method to manage tasks efficiently.

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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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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. If you’re leading a nonprofit, AI can be your virtual assistant, handling everything from setting up meetings to managing budgets. With AI, we can make this resistance a way of life.

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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. HR Help Desk Support, Additional 2-Hour Consultation.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

” Time management has long been heralded as the solution to our increasingly busy lives. But what if the real challenge isn’t managing our minutes and hours? Dive deep into understanding the real resources you should be managing, and discover how a comprehensive approach can lead to a more balanced, fulfilled life.

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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.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 8, 2024

For-profit organizations tend to have sufficient resources to manage HR, flexibility in how they schedule projects, and the resources and bandwidth necessary for effective employee recruitment and engagement strategies. Volunteer management aspect : Nonprofits frequently rely on volunteers to bolster their projects or programs.

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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.

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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.

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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. Flexible project management and data service capacity Tap into the capacity and expertise you need to execute challenging projects.

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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 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.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

An organizer told The NonProfit Times they have gathered signatures of support from close to 200 of the slightly more than 600 non-management colleagues, enough to trigger a unionization vote under the National Labor Relations Act’s minimum 30% threshold. The total of management and non-management employees at the nonprofit is about 800.

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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 focuses on securing funds, allowing you to channel your energy into managing and expanding your programs effectively. A grant writer can identify new funding sources, expand your financial portfolio, and alleviate the worry of resource scarcity.

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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. But doing so protects you from burnout, we must be as gentle to ourselves as we are to others. I go outside and take a 15-minute walk, or sometimes I do some stretching, preferably in a room away from my desk.

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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 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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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.

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