{"id":4402231128415,"date":"2025-06-24T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T17:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philanthropy.com\/yzwzmfdojkta\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:37:52","slug":"listen-now-how-to-stave-off-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philanthropy.com\/solutions\/listen-now-how-to-stave-off-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen Now: How to Stave Off Burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As federal spending cuts, government policy shifts, and economic turbulence roil the nonprofit world, nearly <\/span>90 percent<\/a> of leaders are worried they\u2019re burning out, according to a new study by the Center for Effective Philanthropy.<\/span><\/p>\n

To help leaders figure out how to avoid exhausting themselves and their staffs, we turned to Sean Goode, an executive coach, to tackle this topic for our final episode of the first season of Nonprofits Now: Leading Today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Goode led Choose 180, a Seattle nonprofit that works to keep marginalized youth out of the criminal-justice system, and then took a senior role at the Seattle Foundation before he decided to focus full-time on helping mission-driven executives lead better.<\/span>His experiences have led him to challenge many conventional approaches to nonprofit leadership. <\/span><\/p>\n

While experts often say leaders should spend all their time looking ahead, Goode tells chief executives to slow down and focus on the present. He also urges leaders to see themselves as stewards of their organization focused on building for the long haul and not act like owners focused on short-term wins. And he doesn\u2019t think the usual way nonprofits CEOs approach high-net worth donors builds sustainable organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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