The invisible thing that holds you back at work: An interview with Marc Pitman

Editor's Note: This interview originally appeared on the Wild Woman Fundraising website and is excerpted with permission. You can read the full interview here. Mazarine Treyz: Hey, everybody. Welcome. This is Mazarine Treyz of Wild Woman Fundraising, and today I'm interviewing Marc...

Mental health in the workplace: Your duty is to inquire (and accommodate)

Want to learn more about your duty to accommodate? We partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division on January 19 for a free webinar where we explored this topic in more detail. Click here to watch the recording....

Dealing with difficult executive directors: Tips for nonprofit boards

Are you an executive director dealing with a difficult board? Read the first article in our two-part series for tips on how to improve the situation! It’s not easy being an executive director of a nonprofit organization. In addition to the...

Nearly half of all Canadian employees face workplace sexual harassment: 77% of these victims are women

Interested in learning more about this topic? We partnered with the author for a free webinar - click here to view the full recording. This article was originally published in The Anvil, a Hamilton, Ontario quarterly newspaper, and is reprinted...

Is your nonprofit workplace contributing to mental health or mental illness?

Mental health issues don’t occur in a vacuum. Symptoms like depression, anxiety, PTSD and addictions are typically triggered by stressors at home and at work. Whether it be financial pressures, grief and loss, physical illness, relationship struggles, employee conflict, demanding...

Workplace Harassment: What makes nonprofits vulnerable?

Interested in learning more about how to prevent workplace harassment? We partnered with the authors for a free webinar - click here to watch the recording. Is harassment happening in your organization? When we pose this question, most organizations respond...

Effective self-care strategies: How to recharge the right way to avoid burning out

After the strong response to the article about the cult of busyness and the piece we did on the importance of finding flexibility within the 9 - 5 grind, we recognized that there was much more to the story of why...

Creating a sense of balance: Finding flexibility in the nine-to-five workday

You may have seen a not-so-funny meme floating around on social media that says, “I don’t have a 9 to 5. I have a ‘when I open my eyes to when I close my eyes.’” It's true that in today's...

Five reasons introverts make great nonprofit leaders

Interested in learning more on this topic? We partnered with the author for a free webinar on June 9, 2016. Watch the recording here. Before we dig into the reasons why introverts can be excellent nonprofit leaders, let's first make...

The cult of busyness in the nonprofit sector

You know the right answer, don’t you? It used to be that when someone asked “how are you?” people would say “fine” but somewhere over the last few years the usual and expected answer has become “crazy-busy”. It has become...