About this episode

The episode challenges common beliefs held by nonprofit leaders that may hinder their organization's progress.

I want to challenge a common belief that many nonprofit leaders hold, because it may be the very thing keeping your organization stuck. It's not because you don't care, or you're not working hard, or because your mission isn't important. Often, it's because you've accepted an idea about how nonprofits work that simply isn't true anymore or was never fully true to begin with.

People in this episode

Host: Jennifer Yarbrough

Topics covered

• nonprofit leadership
• organizational beliefs
• nonprofit challenges
• mission-driven work
• change management

Keywords

• nonprofit
• leadership
• beliefs
• organization
• challenges
• mission
• change

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