S1E434 - 434: It Was Never The Money with Andrea Ortega

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ...

The Resource Problem Most Nonprofits Mistake for a Funding Problem

Ask any nonprofit leader what their organization needs most, and you will hear the same answer almost every time. More money. We need more funding. We need to hire. The whole nonprofit resource problem, in their telling, comes down to a number that is too small.

I have worked with hundreds of organizations, and I have stopped taking that answer at face value. Not because leaders are wrong about feeling stretched. They are absolutely stretched. But when you peel back...