I sat down with 55 mission-driven leaders and asked one question:
“What is causing you the most pain right now?”
Here is what surfaced.
Inside you’ll find:
Why the strongest organizations in the sector are the ones that started asking what-if questions before the crises arrived.
The distinction between adapting and drifting — easy to articulate in stable times, much harder to hold in unstable ones.
What leaders are quietly trying that is working, and what is not — including the talent strategies that have nothing to do with salary.
The conversation funders and grantees both know they need to have, and why neither side has found a way to start it.
"We've gone from how do you scale to how do you survive. And the big guys are coming down into our space."
- Implementing organization