Aliza Sherman and I never dreamed that our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout, would be such a needed resource in the nonprofit field when we started writing it last year. Working in the nonprofit sector has become even more stressful in the last few months and we will all need to strengthen our individual and organizational resilience so we can serve our stakeholders without burning out or going crazy. Starting next week, we’ll be visiting a few cities on … [Read more...]
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What Does Resiliency Really Mean for Nonprofit Leaders and Their Organizations?
I declared that resilience was one of my themes for the new year. And, in writing a guest post about it over at the Packard Foundation's Organizational Effective Blog, I shared the story of the boiling frog. If a frog is dropped into cold water in a sauce pan and brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. It is a metaphor for the inability or unwillingness of people to react to or be aware of threats that arise gradually. Burnout is like boiling … [Read more...]
New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work
Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World, with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Of course, there were a few bright spots such as Mario Morino's Lead of Reason, DoSomething.Org, DataKind, … [Read more...]
6 Insights The Sharing Economy Tells Us About The Future Of Fundraising
Note from Beth: December is a time when start to reflect on the past year and future online trends for fundraising. The term "Sharing Economy" came to my attention two years ago after attending the SHARE conference in San Francisco and there were some implications for philanthropy. If you want a good overview of the Sharing Economy from a nonprofit perspective, read these two posts from TechSoup, Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Share Economy and Nonprofits Imagine A Better Sharing … [Read more...]
Learn Post Election Stress Management Techniques for Nonprofits: Free Webinars in December
During the months leading up to the most contentious election in recent history, the media coined a new term "election stress." Post election many nonprofit have been feeling the impact of "election trauma," and many individuals report cutting back on Facebook and other social media due to being overwhelmed. The bottom line that nonprofits need to adapt to a new reality. Being adaptive requires resilience and building up that muscle means practicing self-care as a nonprofit professional and … [Read more...]
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