Perspectives on leadership, fundraising, governance, and what it actually takes to build something significant. Written by Amanda Sherlip — directly, occasionally, and always with something worth saying.
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The nonprofit sector has confused leanness with discipline for long enough. What overhead ratios don’t tell you, what the BMI analogy gets exactly right, and what it actually costs when you underpay the person responsible for your most significant donor relationships.
Scope creep is not always the enemy. Sometimes it is the most honest signal your organization is sending you.
Read →When someone joins an organization, they come because of mission. What keeps them — or doesn’t — is something else entirely.
Read →Most plans fail not because the strategy is wrong, but because the conditions for execution were never built.
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