“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as impossible situations”
Chuck Swindoll
See Early, See More, See Further
Link: Collaborations and Partnerships: My Non-profit Journey (Sofia Crisp)
“Each new stage of a non-profit organization’s growth requires, I feel, a strategic re-channeling of the organization’s energy. Quite simply, the startup vision which allowed the non-profit to take root, and emerge as a viable venture, can lose its impact once the organization is up and running. I’ve seen too many accomplished, visionary leaders taken ‘out of the game’ by underestimating the virtue of collaboration as they grow. Much like Shakepeare’s Julius Caesar, they have a character flaw which holds them back. As the funds for nonprofits continue to decrease, the need for partnering and collaborating has become a necessity”.
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014), Poet/Writer/Civil Rights Activist
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”.
—Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States
“It always seems impossible until it’s done”.
Nelson Mandela
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat”.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
James Baldwin
Your challenges: Face them, don’t deny them
LINK: The Life of a Non-profit: Growth & Growing Pains (Robin Morgan)
“A lot of non-profits hit the middle stage of growth – and the vexing growing pains which go with it . . . Some organizations grow to this stage, suffer growing pains, and then get stuck! They reach a plateau, a middle stage plateau, and stay stuck there. They never move forward. Some non-profits, however, do move forward.”
“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better.
Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills.
Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom.”
Jim Rohn
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
Let Obstacles become Opportunities
You drown not by falling into a river,
but by staying submerged in it.
~ Paulo Coelho
“Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress. Working hard for something we love is called passion”.
Simon Sinek
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
“Victory teaches you nothing. Identifying what went wrong, and then adapting accordingly to it, is the only way to success.”
Jordi Alemany
Your Outcomes Well
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
