How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact Change the World

Nonprofit leadership is hard. Most new nonprofit leaders are ill-prepared for the challenges they will face. And many experienced ones struggle to ensure their organizations deliver the change they are committed to. Looking for guidance, many turn to books on business leadership, but nonprofits are not meant to be run just like businesses—different incentives drive different priorities. In particular, nonprofit leaders have a key advantage over business leaders in that purpose is fundamental to their organization’s work. From Nick Grono, Freedom Fund CEO and a nonprofit leader with decades of experience, offers a leadership framework centered on what matters most for success: With examples and testimony from non-profit and charity leaders around the world, framed by Grono’s expertise, this is a highly useable guide to harnessing the power of purpose to shape everything your organization does—internally and externally—as you seek to change the world.