“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”
Malala Yousafzai
“What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”
– Stephen Covey
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
– Indira Gandhi
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow.
If we don’t grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
Gail Sheehy
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.
Ecclesiastes 11:4 (New Living Translation)
Don’t confuse motion and progress.
A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn’t make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert
“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
Robin Morgan
Unconditional Service: Robin Morgan’s Non-profit Mission
“I was raised to be, not a servant, but a person who is willing to serve unconditionally. And the good Lord didn’t put you here to just make money, to just be a family. He put you here to leave a legacy.
And that can be knowledge, that can be money, that can be service. To me, it’s service. The more [people] I can connect with, the more people I can connect. I thrive on that!”
Unconditional Service: Robin Morgan’s Non-profit Mission
Financial Talk for Non-profits: From a Seasoned Pro
Good Non-profit Leaders: Seeing the Forest Too!
5 Habits of People who Start Non-profits Successfully
4 Must-have Qualities of Exceptional Non-profit Leaders
Non-profit Leadership: Tell-tale Signs of an Ineffective Leader
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”.
Marianne Williamson (Our Greatest Fear)
Immeasurable power, not inadequacy
If you take ALL the right pre-launch steps in starting a non-profit, your passion with have a powerful impact! It will not be inadequate. But you must take these steps . . . and know what to do in the early years of your organization too.
The success of your 501(c)3 will be a function of much more than the depth of your passion!
- One risks inadequacy if they are simply passionate, but lack funds, a solid plan, or haven’t done their due diligence.
“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.”
