The Nonprofit Burnout Crisis Isn’t a Wellness Problem. It’s a Structural One.
Ninety-five percent of nonprofit leaders report full-blown burnout, and one in three is considering leaving the sector. Nonprofit executive Annette Eros argues the usual fixes, more rest, better boundaries, miss the real issue: chronic underinvestment in systems and infrastructure that leaves leaders absorbing the gap. She shares her ANCHOR Method for rebuilding organizational structure, and why “capacity building training” often just adds more weight to an already overloaded leader instead of solving the underlying problem.