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What are the Biggest Challenges in Getting (and Keeping) Your Nonprofit’s Staff and Volunteers?

Blue Avocado

Instead, we utilize the services of volunteers both local and international, as well as online and on-site. Mulindwa William from the Mmanze Centre for Rural Development and Training Challenges can include burnout and being unable to compete with the pay and benefits for-profits can offer.

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Before the Burnout: Listening to Your Body and Working Toward Wellness

Grant Professionals Association

Burnout and compassion fatigue are all too familiar in this sector. We can utilize these tools whenever we want, as many times as we want, and certainly in our workspaces. We combat difficult emotions and experiences every day in this sector - hunger, poverty, abuse, homelessness, discrimination, inequity, and the list goes on!

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4 Common Event Planning Challenges + How to Solve Them

The Fundraising Coach

Utilize Budgeting Tools: Consider using budgeting templates or software designed for nonprofits. Limited Staffing and Volunteer Burnout Nonprofits often operate with small teams and depend heavily on volunteers to bring their events to life. Doing so expands your reach to new audiences.

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Teacher Well-Being: Beyond Yoga and Pizza Parties

Blackbaud

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. To begin, let’s listen to what teachers say is causing their burnout. Utilize everything possible in your software to alleviate faculty workload.

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Prioritizing Wellness: How Our Grant Writing Team Stays Mindful and Fights Burnout on World Mental Health Day

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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. – Megan Martin.

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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. What would you recommend?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

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. First, review previous proposals, if available, to understand the programs, previous methodologies, and budget aspects the organization utilizes.

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Inclusive AI adoption to drive nonprofit missions

Candid

Inclusive AI adoption goes beyond utilizing AI for mere efficiency gains; it can revolutionize mission-driven work. But if AI adoption can increase nonprofit efficiency and productivity, improve employee engagement, reduce burnout, and enhance innovation, it follows that funders should support nonprofit AI adoption now.

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