Boundaries are an act of care that will further the success of non-profits. If you want to make a change you need to model that change for both your community and your staff. You hear the jokes about working for non-profits and feeling so burnt out – because some non-profits fall victim to the fear of losing funding and sacrifice their staff’s mental being in the process. This was an extremely informative guide on how to transform the non-profit sphere to both attract relevant talent and retain that recruited talent. The idea of change and radical help in communities means the mission needs to expand towards the people working to make that change happen.
Non-profit work is rewarding but we live in a society that demands us to still pay bills while trying to navigate challenges in our personal lives. Khonsari truly drives that point with this accessible guide to understand how to make a successful non-profit with steps how to formulate a culture that coincides with your mission statement. Khonsari consistently uses their nonprofit, Pangea as an example of how to overcome specific hurdles and truly expand into something better than it was yesterday. When you interview for that non-profit you have felt passionate about – try to use the principles here to understand if this is the right fit for you as well. Use the interview to interview the companies adherence to their mission for both the employees and the communities served.
Read this as a textbook, a self-guide, ways to give feedback to leadership, leadership to learn how to treat their employees, and how to create actionable goals. Khonsari does fabulous job writing the different mnemonics to create a structure and feed a structure of success. Each chapter ends with key points and terminology to drive your goal-making process forward. With major emphasis on understanding how to take accountability and use that to grow and fulfill your missions. To build a culture is self-growth and to understand how to learn from mistakes. The actionable takeaways was a treat to digest the information of each chapter. A much read this October that truly makes you think about work relationships. Thank you Netgalley and North Atlantic books for this advanced digital copy.