Guest Blog Post – Change is Inevitable

 Post by James Faghmous Coming from a technology background, my early experience as a nonprofit executive has been akin to a Lewis Carol adventure: “curiouser and curiouser!” I have been surprised by the time one is expected to spend fundraising, networking and grant reporting. Certainly these activities are useful, but with moderation. How can we be competitive when we spend thousands of hours chasing funds (fundraising, grant research, grant writing, grant interviewing, grant reporting) for a fraction of what for-profit organizations raise in a single round of venture capital investment at 1/10th the time. This is simply unsustainable. Change is,…

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