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The Organizer is a weekly newsletter for nonprofit and social impact folks written by Charity Case’s Krystyn Tully. I explore one aspect of social impact work every week and share a tool to help make good work a little easier. The first edition launched in January 2022.
Burnout is predictable, which means it's also avoidable. If we know what to look for, we can see burnout coming. If we're willing to make changes, we might even prevent it from happening. That's why managers, leaders, directors, and other members of our community have to step up.
We often encourage and reward the very behaviours that lead to burnout. We applaud long hours. We encourage leaders to set ever-higher social change goals. We sneer at hobbies. We romanticize low pay and crappy working environments. This is burnout culture, and it needs to change.
Social impact organizations do a poor job supporting education and professional development. How can we accomplish our social change goals if we lack basic competencies? In honour of the new school year, we look at how much you should be spending on training, education, and roller derbies.
No matter who we are or what we've experienced, the last two years have shaped our growth. As people and as organizations, this time is leaving its mark. When we look back on this time and the patterns have emerged, here’s what we’ll see.
Today isn’t over yet. What comes next is all blank space, up for grabs. So do the thing you want people to read about in the news. Be a person who deserves attention. Spread ideas worthy of people's time.
Building, leading, and working in social change requires competence. Let’s stop pretending passion alone will change the world. Let’s talk about how we recognize, nurture, support, and revere competence instead.
The more you touch people's lives and hearts, the more there is to do. The good news is this: No matter how much information is coming at you, no matter how many tasks are on your to-do list, no matter what strategy you're following, there are really only six things that require your attention.
Social change leadership is simple. (Not doing it, just defining it.) A social change leader has one responsibility, and everything else flows from that. Here’s what it is, and here’s what it means for you.
With the rising popularity of social enterprises and B-corps and such, "good by default" is within the realm of possibility. This could change the reason people show up for work every day, the problems they choose to solve, and how they mobilize finite resources.
For people drawn in by a social issue, figuring out where money comes from, why it arrives, or how salaries are funded might not be a priority. Here's why you need to know this information if you are starting your career, or trying to keep an organization focused on its mission, or if you care about racism and discrimination at work.
"Fundraise" can mean a lot of things: write grants, throw events, charge fees for service, sell products or memberships, solicit individual donations, or any other activity that gets money in the door for your charity. But when it comes to building an organization, all money is not the same. If you want to understand - or predict - your organization's culture, just look at how you raise money.
Charities run differently from businesses because they are different. These four common financial constraints, explain why a charity sees the situation and thinks, "We have to act!" when a business sees the same situation and walks away. Both are right, in their own way.
Charity leaders are willing to stare injustice and inequality in the face every day. They’ve already volunteered to carry a heavy burden for their communities. So why are we making the day-to-day work harder than it needs to be?
Women are the driving force behind nonprofit work. They support people in need and creating social change. Unfortunately, mission-driven organizations aren't immune to bias and gender discrimination. Here are some stats on wage gaps, power gaps, and the need to better recognize women in the nonprofit world.
If you can’t articulate a persistent grim frustration, or if you’re trying to understand why people are traumatized by what they see happening around them, Joan Halifax offers insight and vocabulary that explains so much.
If you wondered whether the nonprofit sector - the world of professionals largely responsible for driving social services and social change - has a racial diversity problem, the answer is sadly yes.
You can't help a nonprofit until you know the facts about their financial, program, staffing, and strategic positions. Here are the questions you can ask during this crisis to be an informed source of support to the organization you love.
It’s hard being a perfectionist in the nonprofit world. Let’s face it: your work is tremendously important. Here's some advice for nonprofit leaders who don't feel "good enough" in the face of this pandemic.