Success from the Start: Avoid costly mistakes and successfully launch your new nonprofit

Learn from these experts before you make costly mistakes at your startup nonprofit organization

Resources

Susan Kenny Stevens: Nonprofit Lifecycles: Stage-Based Wisdom for Nonprofit Capacity, Stagewise Enterprises, 2008

Michel Gelobter: Lean Startups for Social Change: The Revolutionary Path to Big Impact, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015

Steve Zimmerman and Jeanne Bell: The Sustainability Mindset, Josey-Bass, 2015

 Four Lean Principles to Transform Your Nonprofit https://www.nextafter.com/blog/4-lean-startup-principles-transform-nonprofit/
 
StrongNonprofits Toolkit – Wallace Foundation  https://www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/resources-for-financial-management/pages/default.aspx
 
Nonprofit scenario planning: Bridgespan.org https://www.bridgespan.org/bridgespan/Images/articles/nonprofit-scenario-planning/nonprofit-scenario-planning-COVID-19.pdf

May 2022