Free Nonprofit Resources

Are you burned out or just tired? This comprehensive 40-question burnout assessment was designed specifically for nonprofit executives facing mission-driven pressures. Discover your burnout zone across four dimensions—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—and get severity-based recovery strategies to reclaim your leadership effectiveness. Includes the early warning signs unique to nonprofit leaders, the burnout-to-breakthrough pathway, and clear guidance on when to seek professional help.

Traditional priority systems fail nonprofit leaders because they ignore mission-driven complexity and competing stakeholder demands. The Mission-Money-Momentum framework provides a practical approach to evaluating priorities through three essential lenses, building sustainable priority rhythms, navigating stakeholder conflicts, and developing the strategic discipline to say no to good opportunities that don’t serve your most important goals.

Most nonprofit leaders understand the firefighting problem but struggle to solve it. The FIREBREAK™ Worksheet provides a systematic, phase-by-phase implementation guide for breaking free from constant crisis mode. This detailed walkthrough covers all nine phases—Focus, Identify, Reduce, Eliminate, Build, Routinize, Evaluate, Automate, and Keep—with practical guidance for each step and strategies for maintaining your gains. Stop cycling through productivity tips that don’t stick and start implementing a structured approach designed specifically for mission-driven organizations.

Nonprofit leaders face extraordinary cognitive demands—constant context switching, competing priorities, and interruption-heavy cultures that overwhelm executive functioning. Learn why your brain feels maxed out, how neuroscience explains your daily struggle, and practical strategies for building external systems, protecting attention, reducing decision fatigue, and modifying your environment to support sustainable leadership.

Nonprofit leaders often spend eighty percent of their time fighting fires—racing from crisis to crisis while strategic work never happens. But most organizational fires aren’t inevitable. They’re symptoms of system failures you can fix. The FIREBREAK™ framework offers a systematic approach to reducing preventable crises, shifting from hero culture to systems culture, and building operations that sustain rather than exhaust. Whether you’re drowning in daily emergencies or simply seeking more time for mission-advancing work, this guide provides the analysis and tools to transform how your organization operates.