189: The Habit That Grows Your Nonprofit’s Funding (But Almost No Leaders Practice It)

About this episode

This episode introduces the concept of CEO Time, a leadership habit that helps nonprofit leaders focus on revenue-generating activities instead of getting caught in daily operations.

If your nonprofit feels stuck at the same funding level year after year, the problem might not actually be your donors. It might be your calendar. In this episode, I’m introducing a leadership habit I call CEO Time. It’s the protected time where nonprofit leaders step out of the constant reaction cycle and focus on the work that actually generates revenue. Too often, nonprofit leaders spend their weeks managing operations, responding to emails, preparing board materials, and solving daily pro...

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Host: Christina Tzavaras Edwards

Topics covered

• nonprofit funding
• leadership habits
• CEO Time
• revenue generation
• nonprofit management

Keywords

• nonprofit
• funding
• leadership
• CEO Time
• revenue
• management
• operations

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