How to Lead Nonprofits: Turning Purpose into Impact to Change the World
Nick Grono
Jul 2024 · BenBella Books
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National Indie Excellence Awards Winner in Leadership
"Many go into nonprofit leadership unprepared for the twin demands of business management and measurable social impact. Finally, we have a resource that guides the way. Nick Grono’s masterful How to Lead Nonprofits is a book I will be recommending for years to come.”
—Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Strength to Strength
For nonprofit leaders who want to strengthen their leadership and increase the effectiveness of their organizations, a guide to achieving greater impact—featuring success stories from real nonprofit leaders
Nonprofit leadership is hard. Most new nonprofit leaders are ill-prepared for the challenges they will face, and even those who are more experienced struggle to ensure their organizations deliver the change they are committed to.
Nonprofits are not meant to be run like businesses—different incentives drive different priorities. In particular, nonprofit leaders have a key advantage over business leaders in that purpose is fundamental to their organization’s work.
From Nick Grono, CEO of the Freedom Fund and a nonprofit leader with decades of experience, How to Lead Nonprofits offers a leadership framework centered on what matters most for success:
"Many go into nonprofit leadership unprepared for the twin demands of business management and measurable social impact. Finally, we have a resource that guides the way. Nick Grono’s masterful How to Lead Nonprofits is a book I will be recommending for years to come.”
—Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Strength to Strength
For nonprofit leaders who want to strengthen their leadership and increase the effectiveness of their organizations, a guide to achieving greater impact—featuring success stories from real nonprofit leaders
Nonprofit leadership is hard. Most new nonprofit leaders are ill-prepared for the challenges they will face, and even those who are more experienced struggle to ensure their organizations deliver the change they are committed to.
Nonprofits are not meant to be run like businesses—different incentives drive different priorities. In particular, nonprofit leaders have a key advantage over business leaders in that purpose is fundamental to their organization’s work.
From Nick Grono, CEO of the Freedom Fund and a nonprofit leader with decades of experience, How to Lead Nonprofits offers a leadership framework centered on what matters most for success:
- Achieving outsize impact by pursuing your organization's purpose
- Building an inclusive culture that motivates and empowers your team
- Partnering with the community you serve, funders, and peer organizations to scale impact
With examples and testimony from nonprofit and charity leaders around the world, framed by Grono’s own expertise, this is a highly usable guide to harnessing the power of purpose to shape everything your organization does—internally and externally—as you seek to change the world.
About the author
Nick Grono has decades of experience leading and chairing nonprofits. He is the CEO of the Freedom Fund, a highly successful charity dedicated to ending modern slavery around the world, and he serves on a number of nonprofit boards and acts as adviser to many nonprofit CEOs. Nick has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, and various other publications.
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