Resilience and wellbeing coaching for nonprofit leaders
You are carrying too much — the pressure is unsustainable, your work/life balance has collapsed, and you can feel it affecting your leadership.
What you'll achieve
A more sustainable relationship with your role, with practical strategies for managing energy, setting boundaries, and leading effectively without burning out.
How a Nonprofit Builder consultant helps
- Provide confidential one-to-one coaching combining evidence-based wellbeing frameworks with practical tools tailored to the specific pressures of leading a nonprofit or social enterprise.
Key deliverables
- Coaching needs assessment, personalised wellbeing and resilience plan, regular coaching sessions, self-assessment tools, end-of-engagement reflection summary.
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From the resource library
Free tools and guides to get started
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Sabbatical Programs for Nonprofit Leaders
A how-to guide for foundations that want to fund sabbaticals for nonprofit leaders, written from the Durfee Foundation's own programme. It explains why funders should sponsor rest, then covers legal points, eligibility, applications, selection, cover for the leader's job, orientation, awards, reporting, evaluation, peer support, retreats and budget. It ends with a list of 9 other funder sabbatical programmes. Funders use it to design and run a programme.
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Trust, Rest, and Joy
A short article from the Spring 2024 issue of SSIR, in a supplement sponsored by the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project. Leaders from the Durfee and Satterberg foundations describe how they fund rest: Durfee's sabbaticals since 1997 and its Lark Awards for staff wellbeing, and Satterberg's support for a BIPOC executive director sabbatical and retreat programme. It discusses who gets to rest and why funders need to trust grantees on what restores them.
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