Nonprofit organizations are increasingly facing capacity and sustainability challenges due to widespread leadership and staff turnover, which is, in part, driven by burnout. In both the for profit and nonprofit sectors, sabbaticals (extended periods of leave provided to employees for rest, rejuvenation, and personal development) have been increasingly recognized as a best practice that promotes individual, organizational, and sector-wide flourishing.

For decades, funders in The Rest Roundtable have invested in sabbaticals for nonprofit leaders - quietly, one grant and one leader at a time. Now, for the first time, we can see the full picture. The Rest Roundtable’s new report, “Rest on the Rise,” aggregates nearly four decades of sabbatical investment data, and the story it tells is powerful.

After four years of supporting rest-based practices for hundreds of workplaces, we’ve seen that investment in strategic collective rest is one of the most powerful tools we have to supercharge results.