Helper Sectors: Nonprofit Leaders

At Gap Relief, we focus our trauma-informed training and therapeutic services within the career sectors that keep our communities safe, that say yes to hard things, and that intentionally stand in the fire of trauma so that we don't have to. Those are the helpers we want to serve.

In the coming weeks, we want to spend some time highlighting these different sectors and the difficulties they face in serving their local and global communities.

Nonprofit leaders are literally Gap Relievers to their core! The majority of nonprofits are formed BECAUSE there is a painful gap between a need of the community and the current level of resourcing or specific care available to meet that need.  As such, nonprofit leaders are gap relievers as they work tirelessly to close the gaps they see, alleviating pain and stress for the community in one form or another. As they step in to serve, they are willingly opening themselves up to experience pain alongside those they’re serving and are choosing to face the potential reality of extreme burnout as they engage in positions where they are often under-resourced and overworked. As nonprofit leaders ourselves, our heart-eyes see the realities of the high levels of pain, stress, and trauma that this sector often engages every single day.

These community helpers step into pain on purpose and look at hardship in order to relieve it for others, and they do this often without the assurance that anyone will be there to do the same for them.

We see the risk and strength required to step into the hard things they engage, and we want to be the ones to catch nonprofit leaders and stand in the fire beside them.