Handwriting on the Wall

It is time that nonprofits lost their sense of entitlement.  Listen up:  you aren’t owed anything just because you are a nonprofit.

Sense of entitlement you are asking? How’s that work?  Let me count the ways!

Frequently, I will hear expressions of anger when a nonprofit doesn’t get the funding it had sought.  The anger isn’t at the organization, perhaps for writing a poor proposal or not following funding guidelines or having that prerequisite meeting with the program officer.  Rather, the anger is towards the funder with Read more