Updating the Nonprofit Work Ethic
Beth Kanter and Aliza Sherman, Stanford Social Innovation Review, (2016)
This article discusses how nonprofit leaders can protect themselves and their staff from burnout by orienting the entire organization around a “culture of self-care”, and the important of making self-care a strategic priority for leaders, board members and funders of nonprofit work.
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