Nonprofit Leadership Secret: Two People Who Drive Each Other Crazy

The Best Nonprofits Aren’t Run by One Great Leader. They’re Run by Two People Who Probably Drive Each Other a Little Crazy. FEATURE ARTICLE There is a pattern inside the healthiest nonprofits we work with, and it almost never shows up on an org chart. It doesn’t get...

7 Paradoxes of Nonprofit Leadership

Nobody warned you that the longer you’re a nonprofit leader, the more confusing it could get. Not in a bad way, necessarily. But in the way that anyone who has led a nonprofit organization for more than a few years knows: The job has a way of defying the logic...

EOS and Nonprofit Fundraising: Why Donor Development Gets Overlooked

 [ This is part of a larger EOS vs. ImpactOS series of article. Find all articles here. ]  This may be a surprising thought if your fundraising is stuck or stalled, but your fundraising is not broken. It’s actually your operating system. Your operating system is...

6 Reasons Wildly Successful Nonprofits Are Now Stalling Out

There’s a particular kind of pain that nobody talks about in the nonprofit sector. It’s not the pain of failure. It’s the pain of having built something real, a mission that works, a team that believes, a community that depends on you, and watching...

EOS for Nonprofits: Why a Profit-First System Often Falls Short

[ This is part of an ongoing series about EOS vs. ImpactOS. Find all articles here. ] EOS was built for to generate more profit for businesses. Nothing wrong with that at all, and it’s why over 300,000 businesses use the EOS framework. It’s great for...