NONPROFIT BURNOUT?
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?...