Tag: mission

Passion Isn’t a Business Plan: What 36 Years in Nonprofits Taught Me About Serving

Over the years, Fathers Incorporated has operated through economic downturns, COVID-19, changing administrations, shifting federal priorities, fleeting philanthropic interests, the loss of key personnel, new technology, and evolving public conversations about fathers, families, race, gender, marriage, parenting, and social policy.

Our survival has never meant that we predicted every disruption. It meant that we built enough organizational muscle to adapt when disruption came.

That’s business. And business, in this context, isn’t a dirty word.

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The Hard Truth About Federal Funding and Philanthropic Giving

Nonprofit leaders must build organizations strong enough, deep enough, and clear enough in purpose to ensure that no funding source — federal, philanthropic, or private — ever becomes the author of their mission.