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Changing of the Guard: Nonprofit Transition by Pam Ashlund My head is spinning tonight. At the CA Association of Nonprofits conference last month I heard the news: founder, Flo Green, is retiring. It came as a shock to me because Flo and CAN are synonymous to me. We don't know each other at all, and therefore are not on a first name basis, but I think of her as Flo. That says something about her charisma. Upon hearing her talk, people leave thinking of her as a friend. And she has been a friend, to the nonprofit community and to me by way of inspiration. At that same conference I was introduced to the ideas of Fundraising speaker Kim Klein. She delivered a keynote I covered in NonProfit Confidence Problem . And, as with Flo, I was inspired and I left feeling like I had another friend. And now I hear (thru the Chronical of Philanthropy's article ) that Kim is also retiring. Just yesterday I was talking to a friend over lunch about the whole changing of the guard phenomena. Peo...

Nonprofit Burn-Out? by pam ashlund PART II - NONPROFIT EYE BURNOUT SERIES Ken Goldstein, in " The Nonprofit Consultant Blog " in his posting " Fraud, Burnout and Getting What we Deserve " wrote: The very nature of the sector is to spend long hours solving other people's problems for less money than our skills would earn elsewhere. Having worked for non-profits for going-on decades, when I saw California Association of Nonprofit’s 15th Annual Conference: Building Strong Nonprofits had a session on "Burnout", I signed up as fast as I could. Appropriately, coming in from a red-eye flight the night before, I arrived at the conference (racing from a 7:30 am meeting), exhausted and worn down. At registration, they told me the workshops were starting in ½ hour. I looked around and made a bee line for an empty row of tables and chairs. But there he was, a conference staffer (with a badge)…”I’m sorry, you’re not allowed to sit there”. "Where may I sit?...