“As I was told by a mentor: Challenges are a shortcut to greatness”
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the serial For Granted. As someone who founded a nonprofit, there are weeks I feel like someone crawled into my brain a decade ago before writing this serial — so many familiar dilemmas.
A few things in this week’s installment jumped out at me, and for the sake of the public (and maybe educating fictitious characters!), they should be shared.
So often, nonprofits are started exactly like Chesed Tzirel — born of a need by people with passion but zero nonprofit background. (There is actually an incredible training program called the UJA Chesed Leadership program that has trained over 85 frum female leaders of nonprofits. These characters should join!) So they might not know a thing or two or three….
1) Partnerships in nonprofits are super sticky. While each person can and should have their role, as they’re clearly learning, anything belonging to the organization (e.g., list of volunteers) must be shared for the long-term health of the organization.
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