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Forces for Good: The 6 Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits

If you're small and trying to grow bigger and have high impact, take heart. Most of the things you beat yourself up about don't really matter all that much, at least according Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. Their research shows that perfect management, brand awareness, breakthrough ideas, textbook mission statements, overhead ratios and large budgets are not the best measures of nonprofit excellence. The best measure, it turns out, is the extent to which a nonprofit can mobilize…