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The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout Hardcover – September 30, 2016
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The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit presents realistic strategies for leaders looking to optimize organizational achievement while avoiding the common nonprofit burnout. With a uniquely holistic approach to nonprofit leadership strategy, this book functions as a handbook to help leaders examine their existing organization, identify trouble spots, and resolve issues with attention to all aspects of operations and culture. The expert author team walks you through the process of building a happier, healthier organization from the ground up, with a balanced approach that considers more than just quantitative results. Employee wellbeing takes a front seat next to organizational performance, with clear guidance on establishing optimal systems and processes that bring about better results while allowing a healthier work-life balance. By improving attitudes and personal habits at all levels, you'll implement a positive cultural change with sustainable impact.
Nonprofits are driven to do more, more, more, often with fewer and fewer resources; there comes a breaking point where passion dwindles under the weight of pressure, and the mission suffers as a result. This book shows you how to revamp your organization to do more and do it better, by putting cultural considerations at the heart of strategy.
- Find and relieve cultural and behavioral pain points
- Achieve better results with attention to well-being
- Redefine your organizational culture to avoid burnout
- Establish systems and processes that enable sustainable change
At its core, a nonprofit is driven by passion. What begins as a personal investment in the organization's mission can quickly become the driver of stress and overwork that leads to overall lackluster performance. Executing a cultural about-face can be the lifeline your organization needs to thrive. The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit provides a blueprint for sustainable change, with a holistic approach to improving organizational outlook.
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherWiley
- Publication dateSeptember 30, 2016
- Dimensions6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101119251117
- ISBN-13978-1119251118
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If you’re reading this, you may have begun your nonprofit career with a burning passion to contribute to a cause and maybe, over time, that passion started to dwindle and you feel you are burning out, creating a toxic situation for you and your organization. If you recognize this is happening to you, stop suffering now and read The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit.
Finally, you and other people like you who are the life force of nonprofits worldwide, get authoritative, straightforward guidance on tangible ways to take care of yourself in order to maintain optimal performance. Through the singular humor and piercing insight of two highly respected innovators, learn what it takes to sustain yourself to work more effectively on your organization’s mission. Gain access to a set of well-vetted blueprints to evaluate your own burnout level, create a plan to revitalize yourself, and take real steps to transform the way you treat yourself and how you work.
This guide is a powerful lens that identifies the stresses and challenges that everyone in the nonprofit sector faces and provides practical advice from a wide range of social change activists sharing their personal turnarounds and triumphs by incorporating happy, healthy habits into their everyday routines. The second part of this revolutionary movement expands self-care principles throughout your organization and then beyond to the entire industry. We all need to support each other on our quest to make the world a better place. The WE-care philosophy encourages organizations to shift their cultures to support their staffs’ well-being with the same priority given to external stakeholders. From real-world tips for conducting walking meetings to making a commitment to take real vacations and completely break from technology—this single volume has everything you need to develop a culture of well-being within any size organization. Quickly and easily, you can:
- Gain a meaningful understanding of the causes and symptoms of burnout and their effects on the 5 Spheres of Happy, Healthy Living
- Create a fully customized self-care plan with the included ready-to-use individual self-care assessments and handy checklists
- Get your organization-wide adoption of a well-being program off to an impressive start in six essential steps
The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit gives nonprofit leaders and staff an effective approach to impacting their causes in greater ways through a sector-wide attention to self-care.
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If you’re reading this, you may have begun your nonprofit career with a burning passion to contribute to a cause and maybe, over time, that passion started to dwindle and you feel you are burning out, creating a toxic situation for you and your organization. If you recognize this is happening to you, stop suffering now and read The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit.
Finally, you and other people like you who are the life force of nonprofits worldwide, get authoritative, straightforward guidance on tangible ways to take care of yourself in order to maintain optimal performance. Through the singular humor and piercing insight of two highly respected innovators, learn what it takes to sustain yourself to work more effectively on your organization’s mission. Gain access to a set of well-vetted blueprints to evaluate your own burnout level, create a plan to revitalize yourself, and take real steps to transform the way you treat yourself and how you work.
This guide is a powerful lens that identifies the stresses and challenges that everyone in the nonprofit sector faces and provides practical advice from a wide range of social change activists sharing their personal turnarounds and triumphs by incorporating happy, healthy habits into their everyday routines. The second part of this revolutionary movement expands self-care principles throughout your organization and then beyond to the entire industry. We all need to support each other on our quest to make the world a better place. The WE-care philosophy encourages organizations to shift their cultures to support their staffs’ well-being with the same priority given to external stakeholders. From real-world tips for conducting walking meetings to making a commitment to take real vacations and completely break from technology—this single volume has everything you need to develop a culture of well-being within any size organization. Quickly and easily, you can:
- Gain a meaningful understanding of the causes and symptoms of burnout and their effects on the 5 Spheres of Happy, Healthy Living
- Create a fully customized self-care plan with the included ready-to-use individual self-care assessments and handy checklists
- Get your organization-wide adoption of a well-being program off to an impressive start in six essential steps
The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit gives nonprofit leaders and staff an effective approach to impacting their causes in greater ways through a sector-wide attention to self-care.
About the Author
BETH KANTER was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and is the award-winning author of The Networked Nonprofit books. She is an internationally acclaimed master trainer and speaker.
ALIZA SHERMAN is a web and social media pioneer; founder of Cybergrrl, Inc., the first women-owned, fullservice Internet company; and Webgrrls International, the first Internet networking organization for women. She is a motivational keynote speaker and the author of ten books, including Social Media Engagement for Dummies.
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Product details
- Publisher : Wiley; 1st edition (September 30, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1119251117
- ISBN-13 : 978-1119251118
- Item Weight : 15 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.73 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #401,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #261 in Nonprofit Organizations & Charities (Books)
- #6,294 in Personal Finance (Books)
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors

Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media, one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits. Beth has over 30 years working in the nonprofit sector in technology, training, capacity building, evaluation, fundraising, and marketing. Beth is an internationally recognized trainer who has developed and implemented effective sector capacity building programs that help organizations integrate social media, network building, and relationship marketing best practices. Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory, and other instructional approaches. She has trained thousands of nonprofits around the world.
She co-authored the book titled “The Networked Nonprofit” with Allison Fine published by J Wiley in 2010 that introduced the nonprofit field to a new way of working in an age of connected networks. Her second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with Co-Author KD Paine, was published in October, 2012 and awarded the Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award for 2013. Both books have reached #1 on the list of nonprofit books on Amazon and used in college courses around the world.
She was named by Fast Company Magazine as one of the most influential women in technology and one of Business Week’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media.” She is Visiting Scholar for Social Media and Nonprofits for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in 2009-2013. She was a Society of New Communications Research Fellow for 2010.

[[Who Is She?]]
Aliza Sherman is a Web pioneer, digital marketing strategist, and cannabis entrepreneur, innovator and commentator. Her early work helped pave the way for today's new media industry. She speaks around the world and writes about the Internet, social media, the intersections of social and mobile, and women's technology and cannabis for health and wellness. Aliza provides strategic marketing consulting through her company Mediaegg, LLC and cannabis specific marketing services through her startup Ellementa, Inc.
Named by NEWSWEEK as one of the "Top 50 People Who Matter Most on the Internet" and FAST COMPANY as one of the "Most Powerful Women in Technology," Aliza continues to explore new apps and online tools and their impacts on our work and lives.
[[Book Credits]]
She is the author of twelve books including:
Cannabis and CBD for Health and Wellness: An Essential Guide for Using Nature's Medicine (Ten Speed, June 2019 - co-written with Dr. Junella Chin
The Happy Healthy Nonprofit (Wiley, Sept 2016) - co-written with Beth Kanter
Social Media Engagement for Dummies (Wiley, June 2013) - co-written with Danielle Smith
Mom, Incorporated (Sellers Publishing, Sept 2011) - co-written with Danielle Smith
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Crowdsourcing (Penguin, July 2011)
Streetwise Ecommerce (Adams Media, 2008)
The Everything Blogging Book (Adams Media, 2006)
PowerTools for Women in Business: 10 Ways to Succeed in Life and Work (Entrepreneur Press, 2001)
Cybergrrl @ Work: Tips and Inspiration for the Professional You (Berkeley Books, 2001)
Cybergrrl: A Woman's Guide to the World Wide Web (Ballantine, 1998).
[[Pioneering Work]]
Aliza founded Cybergrrl, Inc. in the early days of the World Wide Web, the first woman-owned, full-service Internet company. She also founded Webgrrls International, the first global women's Internet networking group that empowered women through technology and grew to over 100 chapters worldwide in its first year. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her innovative work on the Internet including the prestigious Avon Spirit of Enterprise Award.
In 1995, she built the first three websites for women (Cybergrrl.com, Webgrrls.com, Femina.com), preceding both Women.com and iVillage.com. She is considered the "pioneer" who helped pave the way online and in the new media industry for women.
[[Extensive Press Coverage]]
She has been profiled internationally as well as in U.S. publications such as PEOPLE, USA TODAY, WALL STREET JOURNAL, US NEWS and WORLD REPORT, TIME DIGITAL, and ELLE magazine. She has been featured on CBS News with Dan Rather, CBS "This Morning," Fox "Good Day New York," Lifetime TV's "New Attitudes," and has had frequent appearances as an Internet expert and book author on CNN, CNN-FN, MSNBC, and CNBC. Radio credits include NPR, CBS Radio, Newsweek Radio and numerous local radio talk shows and Internet radio shows.
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The book is intended to be a practical guide to identifying the symptoms of burnout and creating an organizational culture that prevents it. I didn’t learn anything new in terms of symptoms and prevention strategies. While the suggestions for creating a healthy culture in your organization were sound, it didn’t account for the nuance or politics of an organization. The book was heavy on suggestions for self-care and preventing burnout (all of which I found to be unoriginal), but light on practical and thoroughly-considered suggestions for changing an organization’s culture.
There were areas that were barely discussed which I thought could have made for really interesting conversation. For example, the role funders currently play and could play in the prevalence of burnout was merely a paragraph, but could be really thought-provoking reading. Also, generational differences in work style and self-care were barely mentioned but I think expounding upon it would have enriched the conversation.
Overall, I think the topic of burnout needs more books that provide practical steps for prevention on both micro and macro levels. The most helpful part of this book were the assessments for evaluating your own burnout, coping mechanisms and healthy/unhealthy behaviors. I would have much preferred the book focus on this and take the shape of a workbook of sorts.






