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Question: Good afternoon,
I am writing on behalf of FuseSocial which is a non-profit organization (we say social profit  ) in Wood Buffalo Region that exists to strengthen the capacity of local social profits.
We have found your online tool an amazing resource – so much to take advantage of. Thank you for kindly sharing it.
There is another challenging area that we have encountered with social profits and would like to ask for your advice. Due to non-profit activity specifics, as you certainly know, Human resource management can be very challenging as:
- The level of burnout is high
- Environment can be quite frustrating and challenging
- Clear benchmarks are difficult to achieve.
Keeping this in mind we wanted to ask if you had anything on “Work and life balance”, “Personal leadership and importance of self-care” (that is so often overlooked by non-profit workers), Benchmarking and results measurement in non-profits.

Would be happy to receive and informational tips.
Thank you,

Answer:

Hi Alexandra,

Thanks for your quesion. First, try entering "staff Burnout" (WITHOUT the quotaton marks) into the search box at the upper right of our main page. that will generate a number of "hits" that may be directly relevant to your question. Regarding Benchmarking, we suggest that you look at Evaluating the Initiaive for possibly useful information. Finally, you might try a search through "Connect With Others" for relevant information.

Question Date: Mon, 07/07/2014