Let’s Fix the Friction.
Guiding Nonprofits Toward Sustainable Impact
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You’re one of 1.48 million U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofits (IRS) — part of a crowded, mission-driven sector facing intense challenges and constant competition for limited resources.
Do you concede your mission is meant to plateau?
Or what will you do to set yours apart and keep it alive?
Do These Challenges Sound Familiar?
Executive Directors Burn Out in 3–5 Years
🔥 Turnover at the top.
Executive directors typically leave within 3 to 5 years, often due to burnout, underpay, and lack of support.
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77% Struggle with Leadership Hiring
📌 Leadership pipeline is broken.
77% of nonprofits struggle to recruit senior leaders, and many lack training or mentorship programs.
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65% Face Staffing Shortages
👥 Programs are shrinking.
65% of nonprofits report staffing shortages that force them to scale back services or delay expansion.
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19%+ Staff Turnover
🔁 Constant rehiring drains time.
Nonprofits report staff turnover rates above 19%, leading to disruptions, extra costs, and burnout.
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76% Operating Under $100K Revenue
📉 Most nonprofits are very small.
The nonprofit sector runs lean: 76% of U.S. nonprofits operate on budgets under $100K, 88% under $500K, and 92% under $1M—underscoring just how financially stretched most organizations are.
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47% Underfunded
💰 Financial strain is widespread.
Nearly half of nonprofits can’t fully fund their programs, limiting their impact and long-term viability.
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50% Succeed Long-Term
🕒 Half don’t survive.
30% of nonprofits close within their first 10 years, and by 15 years, nearly 50% are no longer operating. The most common reasons include inconsistent funding, leadership turnover, and lack of long-term strategic planning.
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9% of All Fraud Cases
🚨 Vulnerable to fraud.
Nonprofits account for 9% of all occupational fraud, with median losses of $75,000 due to weak internal controls.
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Quick Check: Where Do You Stand?
😵💫 Overworked team
Everyone’s doing everything. Have you tried…
- Clarifying who owns what with a role responsibility matrix?
- Setting a “no duplicate effort” policy for recurring tasks?
- Creating a weekly rhythm for workload check-ins?
🙃 More staff, same burnout
Growth isn’t fixing the overwhelm. Have you tried…
- Resetting expectations after each hire or grant?
- Delegating outcomes instead of tasks?
- Checking if job descriptions match actual work?
🌫️ Unclear vision, scattered leadership
Energy and effort gets wasted. Have you tried…
- A quarterly vision reset with your leadership team?
- Condensing your org’s “north star” into one shared sentence?
- Mapping decisions back to vision in meetings?
😤 Team tension
Low trust, crossed wires, weird vibes. Have you tried…
- A trust-building retro after each major project?
- Sharing “how I work” docs across the team?
- Implementing weekly pulse check-ins (1–5 scale)?
💸 Fundraising scramble
Always chasing, never catching. Have you tried…
- Standardizing your top 3 funding stories?
- Building a “funder journey” like you would for donors?
- Treating grant-writing like a sprint, not a scramble?
📈 Messy growth
Chaos behind the scenes. Have you tried…
- Choosing one system to lead your operations?
- Naming and fixing your top 2 “repeat fires”?
- Mapping your team’s capacity like a pie chart?
🤔 Busy ≠ impact
Everyone’s moving, but toward what? Have you tried…
- Connecting every project to a single strategic priority?
- Archiving anything not moving your mission?
- Holding “cancel something” meetings each quarter?
🧩 Technology headaches
Clunky tools, no tech lead. Have you tried…
- Auditing your stack to drop or consolidate tools?
- Creating a shared dashboard for visibility?
- Assigning “tech stewards” for each platform?
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