Fundraising without Burnout: Radically Reimagining Philanthropy to Transform Your Impact

by Radha Friedman

Fundraise for Your World-Changing Nonprofit without Burning Out.

Fundraising for your nonprofit can feel never-ending and stressful, causing many fundraisers to burn out and quit. You believe in the mission, and you do whatever it takes to reach your fundraising goals. However, somewhere along the way, you’ve inadvertently run over your boundaries and confused your priorities. You are overworked, overstressed, and starting to understand how Sisyphus must have felt pushing that boulder up the hill in vain.

In Fundraising without Burnout , Radha Friedman, a philanthropic advisor with decades of experience funding nonprofits around the world, offers a frank and witty critique of how the “best practices” we’ve been taught are actually sabotaging our fundraising efforts. By debunking the myths that keep inequitable practices in place, Radha provides solutions that help nonprofit leaders redefine their purpose, prevent burnout, and meet their fundraising goals while reclaiming their peace.

In this book, you’ll discover how

Create a culture where fundraisers feel valued and empoweredIdentify and replace outdated and harmful fundraising practices that lead to stress and burnoutHeal from the years of unbalanced livingAttract aligned donors, and confidently refuse funding that comes with unacceptable strings attachedPrepare for the “great wealth transfer” to women and the expected, consequent changes to the nonprofit sectorAn insightful guide for empowered fundraising, Fundraising without Burnout is like Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly meets Kim Klein’s Fundraising for Social Change . Get your copy and start changing the way we do philanthropy today!

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 25, 2023

Reviews

[Ingrid · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot emphasise how important it is that fundraisers in particular, nonprofit leaders more generally, and funders most of all, read this utterly timely book. As individuals and as a community, fundraisers, and others in the nonprofit sector, have been subjected to ridiculous levels of unrelenting stress, not because they lack knowledge, skills, dedication, perseverance or commitment but because the game is rigged against them. Without any respite from the living nightmare that was the pandemic, most 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.

[Helen J Altshul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although this book is aimed at the US non-profit fundraiser, it has gems of wisdom for anybody working in this.space. I found myself nodding in recognition when reading many of the scenarios outlined and I liked the questions and affirmations at the end of each chapter. Lovely to read this type of book written by somebody I'm lucky enough to count as a friend.

[Erica Viegelahn · Rating 1 out of 5]

A waste of time

I really wanted this book to be insightful and really focus on the steps we can take to eliminate burnout in ourselves or in those we manage but instead found this book to be filled with the author's complaints about the sector to the point where it was annoying.