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Empowering nonprofits to transform aspirations into impact. | Author, Innovation for Social Change | Sr Director, Strategy & Innovation @Mercatus | Two Larks 𓅪 Consulting, Owner and Principal
Great question from the audience at a recent book talk: "My nonprofit works in advocacy and is out-funded and out-staffed by opponents - what can we do?" 🧡 There are many inspiring stories of underfunded yet wildly successful social change movements, like the American civil rights movement. We can learn from them. 💪 Despite obstacles like vested interests, widely held fallacies, well funded opposition, intimidation, and even violence, movements have succeeded against the odds. 🔎 Some commonalities in these stories? Boldness mixed with pragmatism, a theory of change designed to create momentum, working alongside unexpected or unusual allies, finding ways to impel neutral people on the sidelines... ⚡ Get ready to be inspired. Read their stories in Innovation for Social Change: How Wildly Successful Nonprofits Inspire and Deliver Results. https://lnkd.in/exbueqzq