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If your nonprofit organization is small and at this point has only a founder and two or three board members, you can simply convene that small group and ask, “Where are we going and why?” Here are three statements you’re likely to hear back in this first round of asking the same question over and over:

“We’re going to change the world!”

“We’re going to become the largest nonprofit in our state!”

“We’re going to be debt-free!”

Don’t criticize or belittle your stakeholders. Do you know how many people live for today, and think for today, and never set goals or create a vision for the future? We would have to say that, likely, millions have fallen short of seeing themselves or their nonprofit organizations as sustainable for many years to come. This fear is a common one for new nonprofit founders. Their dreams start out with huge, grandiose ideas — only to have each one of them fizzle at the starting gate. Why? Lack of money, lack of planning, lack of foresight, and lack of appropriate stakeholders at the table on day one of forming their nonprofit organizations. This is why it’s important to invite the right people to join your board and lead the organization from a flatline status to a soaring status.