Synopses & Reviews
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Learn how to strengthen your leadership and maximize your nonprofit organization's impact by leveraging three foundational elements: purpose, people, and partners. Nonprofits are not meant to be run like businesses--different incentives drive different priorities. In practice, the purpose-driven nature of nonprofits provides leaders with an intrinsic advantage over those of profit-driven organizations.
From Nick Grono, Freedom Fund CEO and decades-long nonprofit leader, How to Lead Nonprofits offers a leadership framework centered on what matters most for success:
- Achieving outsize impact by pursuing your organization's purpose
- Building a culture that prioritizes diversity and a committed staff
- Partnering with those you serve, funders, and peer organizations and networks
This framework--readily adaptable to any organization--will help you deepen and amplify the impact of your work by putting the people and communities you serve at the center and by building resonant relationships with those who share the same goals.
Featuring examples and testimony from nonprofit leaders around the world, framed by Grono's expertise, How to Lead Nonprofits is a practical guide to harnessing the power of purpose to shape everything your organization does--internally and externally--as you seek to change the world.
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"A clear and compelling road map for social sector leadership, enlivened with vivid examples and strong writing. This work can help any nonprofit CEO who seeks to transform inspired purpose into a powerful flywheel of tangible impact."
--Jim Collins, author, Good to Great and Good to Great and the Social Sectors For nonprofit leaders who want to strengthen their leadership and increase the effectiveness of their organizations, this guide sets out a path to achieving greater impact--featuring success stories from real nonprofit leaders.
Nonprofit leadership is hard. Most new nonprofit leaders are ill-prepared for the challenges they will face. And many experienced ones struggle to ensure their organizations deliver the change they are committed to.
Looking for guidance, many turn to books on business leadership, but nonprofits are not meant to be run just like businesses--different incentives drive different priorities. In particular, nonprofit leaders have a key advantage over business leaders in that purpose is fundamental to their organization's work.
From Nick Grono, Freedom Fund CEO and a nonprofit leader with decades of experience, How to Lead Nonprofits offers a leadership framework centered on what matters most for success:
- Achieving outsize impact by pursuing your organization's purpose
- Building an inclusive culture that motivates and empowers your team
- Partnering with the community you serve, funders, and peer organizations to scale impact
With examples and testimony from non-profit and charity leaders around the world, framed by Grono's expertise, this is a highly useable guide to harnessing the power of purpose to shape everything your organization does--internally and externally--as you seek to change the world.