Why Nonprofit Staff Struggle with Accountability and Follow-through

The Soapbox is a once-a-month column where we set aside the niceties and discuss something important in the nonprofit sector, but say something that is directed, pointed and without fluff. We might be right. We might be wrong. But it will never be for lack of thinking...

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...