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The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout

ISBN: 978-1-119-25111-8

September 2016

240 pages

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If you’re reading this, you may have begun your nonprofit career with a burning passion to contribute to a cause and maybe, over time, that passion started to dwindle and you feel you are burning out, creating a toxic situation for you and your organization. If you recognize this is happening to you, stop suffering now and read The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit.

Finally, you and other people like you who are the life force of nonprofits worldwide, get authoritative, straightforward guidance on tangible ways to take care of yourself in order to maintain optimal performance. Through the singular humor and piercing insight of two highly respected innovators, learn what it takes to sustain yourself to work more effectively on your organization’s mission. Gain access to a set of well-vetted blueprints to evaluate your own burnout level, create a plan to revitalize yourself, and take real steps to transform the way you treat yourself and how you work.

This guide is a powerful lens that identifies the stresses and challenges that everyone in the nonprofit sector faces and provides practical advice from a wide range of social change activists sharing their personal turnarounds and triumphs by incorporating happy, healthy habits into their everyday routines. The second part of this revolutionary movement expands self-care principles throughout your organization and then beyond to the entire industry. We all need to support each other on our quest to make the world a better place. The WE-care philosophy encourages organizations to shift their cultures to support their staffs’ well-being with the same priority given to external stakeholders. From real-world tips for conducting walking meetings to making a commitment to take real vacations and completely break from technology—this single volume has everything you need to develop a culture of well-being within any size organization. Quickly and easily, you can:

  • Gain a meaningful understanding of the causes and symptoms of burnout and their effects on the 5 Spheres of Happy, Healthy Living
  • Create a fully customized self-care plan with the included ready-to-use individual self-care assessments and handy checklists
  • Get your organization-wide adoption of a well-being program off to an impressive start in six essential steps

The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit gives nonprofit leaders and staff an effective approach to impacting their causes in greater ways through a sector-wide attention to self-care.

About the Author

BETH KANTER was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and is the award-winning author of The Networked Nonprofit books. She is an internationally acclaimed master trainer and speaker.

ALIZA SHERMAN is a web and social media pioneer; founder of Cybergrrl, Inc., the first women-owned, fullservice Internet company; and Webgrrls International, the first Internet networking organization for women. She is a motivational keynote speaker and the author of ten books, including Social Media Engagement for Dummies.