When You Try To Convince Yourself To Get Your Case Notes Done Ahead Of The Deadline Instead Of Procrastinating With Other Work And Causing Yourself To Panic Later:

Oh well, I have two more hours before any of these are due. I think my pencils need to be reorganized again.

When The Politician Who Voted Down Three Separate Bills To Increase Funding To Non-Profits Claims That One Of His Main Concerns Is Ending Homelessness:

When You've Had A Week Of Constant Crisis Management And You End Up Sobbing Over "The Brave Little Toaster:"

"The appliances" *sob* "just want to be loved!!!"

When You Have To Get A Certain Amount Of "Training Hours" In Per Year And You End Up Stuck In A "Homelessness 101" Course:

"Now let's define the term 'homeless' shall we?"

How about not?

What Often Happens When Two Non-Profits Compete, Instead Of Collaborate, For Funding:

And the money goes to... the two agencies that learned that sharing is caring and profitable!

When A Client, Who Has Been Avoiding You For A Week Because They Aren't Doing What They Said They Would Do, Randomly Sees You Downtown:

Stop pretending you're a bush. You aren't fooling anyone and I'm off the clock anyways, just call me on Monday.

Why Most Non-Profit Agencies Perform A Driving Background Check Before Letting Employees Drive The Agency Van:

When You Find Out That The $200 Grant You Received Has Eight Pages Of Reporting Requirements Attached To It:

I will use more than $200 worth of paper and ink just filling out all of the required forms and compiling the data for this grant.

What Often Happens When You Try To Pass A Client Off To A Federal Agency:

Coming Back From A Three Day Vacation:

None of you could possibly have been helped by someone aside from me?

When You Spend An Entire Day Trying To Catch Up On The Last 5 Months Of Data Entry:

When Your Agency's Events And Fundraiser Coordinator Asks If You Have Any Plans This Weekend:

I... uh... am getting an enema? Please don't ask me to sit at an agency booth for five hours.

The Song Every Non-Profit Worker Sings On a Daily Basis:

It is estimated that a person will spend 1.5 years total on the toilet in their lifetime... I think I've spent 3 times that waiting for the printer at work to print my documents.

When You're In A Group Of Experienced And Effective Social Workers Collaborating To Get Things Done:

You'd better watch out social issues, we're here to kick ass and take names! (And we will probably need to consume a lot of coffee while doing it.)

When A Brand New Volunteer Decides To Give You Case Management Advice:

No, I don't think that "singing my frustrations to them" is really a viable option.

When, After Eight Months Of Advocacy, You Finally Get Your Chronically Homeless Client Housed:

It only took a mental health assessment, getting their name on housing lists, calling and bugging the the people on the housing boards relentlessly, keeping the client from vanishing due to the long wait-list time...

When People From Neighboring Businesses Take All the Parking Spots In Your Non-Profit's Parking Lot Because They Don't Want To Pay For Parking:

That free parking was our only perk!  

That Moment When You Can Tell That Your Coworker Really, Really, Really Needs A Vacation:

Okay, time to take some PTO honey.

What Often Happens When You Try To "Bridge The Gap" Between Granting Cycles: