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(May 07, 2024) – Claire Peeps became the second executive director of L.A.’s Durfee Foundation in 1996. She expected to stay in the job for about two years…

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(Spring 2024) – On her sabbatical from work, Debra Suh watched her kids and husband play in the Hawaiian waves while her parents relaxed…

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(Sep. 26, 2023) – Since 2016, The Healing Trust has funded sabbaticals for nonprofit CEO/EDs based on the belief that the healing…

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(Sep. 07, 2022) – When we talked with Durfee Foundation Executive Director Claire Peeps for our July report on the funder’s new Lark Awards for nonprofit staff…

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(Sep. 5, 2022) – Sabbaticals are as old as the Bible. And, for many sectors, they are as rare as the miracles described in the…

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(July 19, 2022) – When we last caught up with the Durfee Foundation a year ago, we focused in large part on the effects of the COVID pandemic…

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(July 29, 2021) – After the past 16 months of pandemic and political unrest, one thing is certain: Most of us need an extended vacation…

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(Jan. 19, 2018) – In 2013, a report from CompassPoint found that a third of the nonprofit executive directors and half of the development directors…