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Nonprofits: Planning vs Just Reacting – are you okay?
As nonprofit leaders, we carry the dreams, hopes, and challenges of our communities on our backs. We navigate grant cycles, staff turnover, board dynamics, evolving needs, and unpredictable funding environments all while trying to stay true to our mission. It’s no wonder that so often, we find ourselves moving from fire to fire, crisis to crisis, without enough time to sit down, breathe, and ask: Where are we really going? …and often, we end suffering the inevitable burnout. If this feels familiar, you are not alone. Most nonprofit leaders I work with deeply value strategic planning. I know you do, too. Yet the problem isn’t that you don’t care about…