Avoiding these four pitfalls won't guarantee success, but ignoring them can prevent even the strongest mission from ever getting off the ground.

In my experience, there is no shortage of community-changing ideas. Sadly, many of them never make it past the starting line.

The nonprofit causes we love have an underbelly that is not so glamorous: they are hard to financially sustain.

It is a high probability that anyone reading this has little interest in hearing more about COVID-19. The quarantines, job and business losses, mental health struggles, and waves of deaths have cast a long shadow over all of us. One might call this a tempting season to “lose heart.”

How can we resist the tendency to lose heart in this difficult time?