Burnout rates are on the rise, and they are especially high among nonprofit leaders.
While burnout has been growing since COVID, it is particularly high among fundraisers because the turbulence of the last few years--the global pandemic, racial justice uprisings, rising authoritarianism, human rights atrocities, and record number of attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community--required nonprofit leaders to take on an even greater share of responsibility to care for their communities, with one crisis after another and no rest.
Now as donations are down and donors are reporting "compassion fatigue," fundraisers are exhausted. That is a problem for ALL of us.
Fundraising without Burnout is a love letterto fundraisers who work in a sector that is often misunderstood, under-appreciated, and undervalued. A soothing balm for the vital work needed to repair the world, it offers a frank and witty critique of how the “best practices” we’ve been taught in philanthropy are actually sabotaging our movements, and what we can do to heal.
By debunking the myths that keep inequitable practices in place, the book offers solutions to help nonprofit leaders meet their fundraising goals without sacrificing their values or their peace.
Learn strategies to:
- Identify harmful fundraising practices that lead to stress and burnout
- Heal from years of toxic workplaces, oppressive systems, and unbalanced living
- Attract aligned donors, and confidently refuse funding that isn't aligned
- Prepare for the “great wealth transfer” to women over this next decade and the expected, consequent changes to the nonprofit sector.
Get your copy today, on Audible, Kindle or paperback!
Get the book, and learn how to attract new resources while identifying the toxic practices that can sabotage your efforts, along with steps to heal from and prevent burnout.
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What Readers Are Saying
“Fundraising Without Burnoutis an extremely thoughtful and timely book that sheds a light on the toll that philanthropy takes on the nonprofit workforce - and what that means for the future of our sector.”
- Edgar Villanueva
Bestselling Author, Decolonizing Wealth
“So appreciative of Radha's book that synthesizes important ideas and provides practical ways to address burnout among fundraising professionals. It's a timely book, as we are losing so many fundraisers, whose work is critical for advancing a just and equitable world."
- Vu Le
Author, Unicorns on Fire and the Nonprofit AF blog
“A must-read book for anyone interested in shifting philanthropy and our practices. Women are expanding their financial influence in the fields of philanthropy, impact investing, and venture capital, and it's time to pay attention and take action.”
- Tuti Scott
Former CEO, Tides
“I cannot emphasize how important it is that fundraisers in particular, nonprofit leaders, and funders most of all, read this utterly timely book. Without any respite from the living nightmare that was the pandemic, especially for the nonprofit sector, and for fundraisers as much as frontline workers, we are being challenged to ‘seize the new opportunities’ that surround us and ‘reinvent’ ourselves and our organisations. This book draws on the author’s personal experiences to illuminate the structural causes of fundraiser burnout and offers a healthier, more wholesome paradigm grounded in feminist values to which we would all do well to pay heed.”
- Ingrid Srinath
Founder, Center for High Impact Philanthropy
About the author
Radha Friedman is a philanthropic advisor and coach on a mission to invest in women leaders, especially women of color and historically marginalized groups who receive only 1 percent of philanthropic gifts. As a former fundraiser and a former grantmaker, Radha uses her experience across 60 countries to bridge the gap between funders and fundraisers alike to move resources to the leaders and organizations that are changing the world.
Radha has worked with everyone from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to luminaries like the Dalai Lama and president Joyce Banda, to reviewing grants for MacKenzie Scott's Yield Giving. Radha co-founded the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights (winner of the Hilton Humanitarian Prize and Skoll Award) and has been named a fellow by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, American Express Foundation, Independent Sector, Henry M. Jackson Foundation, and the Global Women’s Leadership Network. (And, she one carried Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s bag.)
She lives in Seattle (traditional Duwamish and Coast Salish land) with her wife, dog, and rescue parakeet.
