GIVING Magazine
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Since the beginning of time, we’ve been wired to avoid risks because that’s how we survive. But while this instinct may protect us from danger, it also holds us back. Success requires bold, unconventional actions that often draw criticism. Businesses understand this well, but nonprofits often struggle to embrace it.
This month’s feature challenges a comfortable myth within the nonprofit sector — that mission alone guarantees sustainability.
It does not.
Joe Garecht has spent decades helping organizations raise serious money. In this piece, he makes the case for something many nonprofits resist: disciplined, business-driven leadership.
This is not about becoming corporate. It is about becoming durable.
Viken Mikaelian
Publisher, Philanthropy.org
