Grant Professionals Association

JUNE 28, 2024

For those of us in the nonprofit sector and the grant profession, we tend to work in situations where we are trying to help folks experiencing circumstances much worse than our own. Burnout and compassion fatigue are all too familiar in this sector. Stress, fear, anxiety, sadness, frustration, etc.

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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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Millionaire Grant Lady

MARCH 12, 2024

These predictions are based on the most up-to-date information available as well as our in-the-trenches work with our nonprofits. When we think about grants, we tend to consider it to be a direct relationship between the foundation giving the grant and the nonprofit organization that receives the grant. Check them out here and here.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grant funding is an essential part of fundraising for nonprofit organizations. While many nonprofits rely on grant funding for a significant portion of revenue, how nonprofits fill their grant writing needs varies significantly from organization to organization. This bill is too expensive for many nonprofits.

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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? And how could I believe that I would never ever make a mistake?

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JUNE 12, 2023

**The Unstoppable Wheel of Nonprofit Work: Is There Room for Rest?** Nonprofit work can feel like running on a never-ending treadmill, right? Rebellion Against Burnout: Rest as a Revolutionary Act Tricia Hersey’s Nap Ministry isn’t just about catching some Zs. In this chaos, rest often feels like an absurd concept.

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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. Let’s take a deeper look at how to effectively take time off when you’re the leader of a nonprofit. Fundraising is a high-turnover field and burnout is a key reason.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 8, 2024

Think back on your nonprofit’s growth journey. Perhaps your nonprofit started with you wearing dozens of hats, from fundraiser to marketer to program officer. If you’ve experienced this type of rapid growth, you’ve probably realized that your nonprofit could benefit from a robust human resources (HR) framework. Let’s begin!

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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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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

When we first started researching the use of AI in nonprofit organizations, we described the key benefit of AI as the “dividend of time.” With many nonprofit workplaces taking up generative AI over the past year, what costs and benefits are staff seeing? Researchers have measured the time savings created by generative AI.

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GiveSmart

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit development and marketing teams share similar goals in an organization. Both want to attract and retain donors to further their nonprofit's cause. While the methods these teams bring to the table differ, nonprofit leaders can have the departments work together to enhance social impact.

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GiveSmart

APRIL 24, 2024

Nonprofit development and marketing teams share similar goals in an organization. Both want to attract and retain donors to further their nonprofit’s cause. While the methods these teams bring to the table differ, nonprofit leaders can have the departments work together to enhance social impact.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 12, 2010

I worked with one ED who was nothing short of brilliant at putting together a remarkably cohesive board (and this for a tiny nonprofit agency with a yearly budget of $500,000) of remarkably diverse individuals. But the leader who tries to do it all is headed for burnout, and in a powerful hurry. BILL OWENS. Learn how to delegate.

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The Grantsmanship Center

JANUARY 17, 2024

Resolve to try harder to listen to the ultimate end users of your programs —the clients your nonprofit was created to serve. After all, your work as a proposal writer is in service of an organization that exists to deliver benefits to people outside the walls of the nonprofit. All of this can lead to burnout or meltdown.

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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. began her career in academia and started working as a grant pro in 2018 for a nonprofit in Columbus, Ohio. Kurzen, Ph.D.

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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.

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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. I’m tired of 90% of the funding out there going to the top 2.7% (in annual revenue) of nonprofits. It makes me angry that 1.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

The long and short of it is that the Digital Fundraising Summit is a virtual conference designed to help nonprofit marketers and fundraisers thrive in today’s digital-first world. We recently conducted a survey of nonprofit professionals and found that your biggest challenges are growing fundraising with limited time + resources.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

A union drive is underway at a Denver nonprofit that helps the unhoused, the latest of what appears to be a nascent but growing trend across the nonprofit sector there and in other parts of the country. The total of management and non-management employees at the nonprofit is about 800.

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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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Just Write Grants

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Amidst the chaotic— yet remarkably rewarding— landscape of nonprofit initiatives, grant writing is the unsung hero. You're a Jack-of-All-Trades Juggling multiple roles can lead to burnout. You're Short on Time Time is precious in the nonprofit sector. Kristin believes in the power of nonprofit organizations to change the world.

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The Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Volunteers are key to helping nonprofits stay up and running. From donating their time to help out with vital programs and initiatives to lending their professional expertise and skills, volunteers help keep nonprofits on track to complete their goals. The right software can also blend seamlessly into the systems you already use. .

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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

nonprofits are struggling to navigate this period of uncertainty and instability, facing heightened federal scrutiny to threats to their funding. Based on my 25+ years working in nonprofit technology and consulting, here are some ideas on nonprofit survival strategies. A new nonprofit mutual aid and defense strategy?

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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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