by Karen Kendrick | Oct 11, 2024 | Goal Setting, gratitude, Non-Profit Leadership, Stress, Stress relief, Wellness | Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Self-care, Stress
As a fundraising leader, you likely experience a lot of pressure to raise funds and continue to grow your program so you can support your organization’s work. We often hear about fundraiser burnout and overwhelm, which remain significant issues in our sector. But we...
by Karen Kendrick | Feb 9, 2024 | Boundaries, Burnout, Emotional Triggers | Non-Profits, Overworked, Personal Development, Philanthropy, Self-care
“I’m doing the work of three people right now because of layoffs.” “My CEO expects to meet daily AND on camera!” “Working remotely, there’s no separation between work life and home life.” These are just a small sample of some of the comments we heard recently on a...
by Karen Kendrick | Jul 14, 2021 | Boundaries, Burnout, Emotional Triggers | Philanthropy, Self-care
“I’m doing the work of three people right now because of layoffs.” “My CEO still expects to meet daily AND on camera!” “There’s no separation between work life and home life.” “We’ve only been given two weeks to fully transition back to the office.” These are...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | Jul 12, 2021 | Leaders, Vacation | Leadership, Self-care
In our recent blog post we encouraged you to take a break, and we gave you all our reasons. Now we’re going to practice what we’re telling you to do – we’re going to take a break ourselves! So, over the next several weeks, Richard and I won’t be writing our usual blog...
by Jeff Schreifels | Jun 28, 2024 | Personal Development, Summer planning, Vacation | Overworked, Personal Development, Self-care, Stress
Up until recently (say the last couple of years), I haven’t been good at taking breaks from my work. I guess you could say that it started by growing up in a very work-oriented German family. I’m one generation from the farm. My father grew up on a farm, and I have a...
by Richard Perry and Jeff Schreifels | May 17, 2024 | Donor strategy, Summer, Summer planning | Communication, Fundraising, Planning, Prioritizing, Professional Development, Self-care
May is already in full swing, and summer will soon be officially upon us. I spent 8 years as a development director for two non-profits in Philadelphia earlier in my career, and I loved summer. That’s because it wasn’t as crazy with events as other times. And, people...