Free White Paper: The Cost of Burnout in Activists

Crafted by Dr. Virginia Lacayo, Ph.D., this white paper's thesis is: activist burnout is a systemic risk to non-profit organizations, and funding leader resilience protects the sustainability of the organization, its programs, and its impact.

The white paper identifies a structural gap in philanthropic practice: foundations fund programs, yet the leaders who run them remain the least supported part of the system. Her analysis combines her own findings with external research, including the Center for Effective Philanthropy's State of Nonprofits survey and Chen and Gorski's foundational study of activist burnout.