The Successful Nonprofit Start-up: Keys to Success

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The founding of a nonprofit organization is an act of hope and good will. It is also a project that inevitably confronts its leaders with many challenges: Who should lead? For how long and in what manner? How will we garner the resources we need to accomplish what we have set out to do? What resistance will we encounter? Who are the stakeholders? What kinds and levels of capital will be necessary for success (social, financial, natural, and human)? These are just some of the questions that founders and founding board members must answer. To equip them with the tools to put forward feasible answers, this course is intended to apprise would-be founders of some of the likely hurdles they will face and how not to be tripped by them.