While you’re waiting for your application to be reviewed, here are a few articles and other resources that you might find helpful in your professional development. (We’ll be adding to this list over time.)

• If you work at a nonprofit experiencing a lot of growth (or you want to be prepared to navigate that in the future), this concept of giving away your legos is really important to understand. (It’s phrase that comes out of the tech startup space, so that’s why it’s from a tech-focused website, but absolutely applies to growing nonprofits all the same.) https://review.firstround.com/give-away-your-legos-and-other-commandments-for-scaling-startups/

• This resource is a classic one around navigating difficult changes  at work (or any part of your life) by being clear on what you can influence vs control (or not) and leaning into what you can influence/control: https://changecatalysts.com/when-change-is-out-of-your-control-what-you-can-do/ 

• An excellent resource from the Management Center on tips for navigating those times of feeling overwhelmed at work, which is an even more frequent challenge in our current environment. https://www.managementcenter.org/resources/managing-overwhelm-at-wor 

• Do you embrace taking breaks? If not, you should! There’s a lot of research showing that taking more breaks is so healthy for you as a human and helps you do your best work at your job: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/01/break 

• If you’re struggling with burnout, we’ve referred many people to use this article as a starting point to explore some potential interventions grounded in what brought them specifically to burnout: https://community.thriveglobal.com/life-after-burnout-science-recovery-tips-strategies/ 

• We keep coming back to this article from around the pandemic about how to build a ‘rest ethic’ that is as strong as or stronger than your ‘work ethic’: https://www.fastcompany.com/90515476/how-to-build-a-rest-ethic-that-is-as-strong-as-your-work-one