This is the last of my three-part video series on challenges and pitfalls facing nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations. This segment focuses on the problem of waste: As an independent consultant with no real apparatus to speak of (which is by design), it’s easy to spot expenditures in organizations that simply don’t need to be…

I am in the middle of a three-part video series on challenges and pitfalls that nonprofit organizations face. This second challenge is (like all these pitfalls), not unique to nonprofits, but it does afflict many. That is the tendency to begin to confuse the health of the organization with the effective pursuit of the mission.…

I am doing a three-part video series on challenges and pitfalls that face nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations. The first pitfall is “inwardness,” as I discuss here: This is not a new idea. Indeed, one of the drivers of the whole strategic planning movement of the late 1960’s was the notion that businesses needed to…