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What's Your Personal Craziness Index? Identify, Take Action, and Avoid Nonprofit Burnout

October 27, 2016 by Beth Kanter Leave a Comment

In my newest book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout, the first half of the book addresses how nonprofit professionals can assess and become more self-aware about the symptoms of burnout and begin to practice self-care to avoid burnout. Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion that occurs when we feel overwhelmed by too many demands, too few resources, and too little recovery time.   There are physical symptoms like headaches, aches and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Happy Healthy Nonprofit, Reflection

The One Simple Thing That Nonprofit Leaders Do To Keep Inspired and Avoid Burnout

October 20, 2016 by Beth Kanter Leave a Comment

Yesterday, I was honored to fill in as MC and interviewer for Darian Rodriguez Heyman at the Nonprofit Fundraising Masters event.   (Darian was welcoming his first child, a boy, into the world!). The event, a one-day conference designed to share the world’s most successful fundraisers’ secrets to success, most valuable tips and tools, and sources of inspiration.  I did 6 fireside chats with Chuck Collins, YMCA; Annie Leonard, GreenPeace; Stephanie Bray, United Way; Michael Brune, Sierra Club, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digital Wellness, Happy Healthy Nonprofit, Personal Productivity, Reflection

What Nonprofits Need To Do More in 2015: Embrace Stillness

January 6, 2015 by Beth Kanter

The new year is always a popular time for all of us to take stock and see the big picture.   And, every year when the calendar flips over, we embrace reflection and setting goals.   However, we live in a connected world where we have gotten so go at being in touch, informed, and connected, that we don't know how to be alone and step away more regularly. People who work in the social good sector world are busy people, flitting from task to the next text or email.     Too often, we can caught up … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Digital Wellness, Leadership, Reflection

Pioneers in Justice: Building Networks and Movements for Social Justice

October 28, 2014 by Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: How do we build networks and movements around important social change issues.  A generative social impact network links people together through relationships.  They create social capital or value by making their skills, resources, and knowledge available to each other.    Engagement in the network provides a bigger benefit than to the individual member, the networks can work on finding solutions to big social issues.  A social impact network is different than a coalition or … [Read more...]

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Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofit Giving Days

November 6, 2013 by Beth Kanter

I'm facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook.   The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together.   This is a design aspect called "Transformative Capacity Building,"  where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better … [Read more...]

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