A Recovery Plan for Fundraisers Facing Burnout - Fundraising Wisdom - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

A Recovery Plan for Fundraisers Facing Burnout - Fundraising Wisdom - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: A Recovery Plan for Fundraisers Facing Burnout

October 31, 2012, 2:40 pm

By Carol Weisman

Do any of these describe you?

You spend more the 50 percent of your therapy session talking about fundraising.

Your efforts to get board members to help raise money are so unpleasant, you find yourself daydreaming of the good old days when you were on the front lines in the Vietnam War.

You have gained more than 30 pounds, tripled your alcohol consumption, or taken up smoking over the age of 40.

You and a co-worker are thinking of leaving together. The only thing you haven’t decided is who will be Thelma and who will be Louise.

If any of these sound familiar, you may be suffering from burnout.