8 Nonprofit Inflection Points and How to Seize Them

In the lifecycle of any nonprofit there comes a time when something needs to change. Call it an inflection point, a resetting, a fork in the road. I see it all the time. Someone in the organization takes a step back and realizes something just isn’t going to work anymore. It’s a critical point. It’s the point at which you decide whether you are going to take the leap and make this a year of real change.

When that moment comes, and you feel the urge to really do things differently, don’t shy away from it. Take the leap.

Here are eight of the most common nonprofit inflection points and how Social Velocity can help you seize the opportunity they present:

1. Board and staff are floundering and don’t know where the organization is going:
   • Download our Business Plan Step-by-Step Guide
   • Check out Social Velocity’s strategic planning process
   • Read about other nonprofits who found clarity through a strategic plan
2. Everyone is fed up with fundraising
   • Check out our step-by-step Financing Plan Guide
   • Read our Financing not Fundraising series
   • Read how English at Work and BookSpring transformed their organizations through a comprehensive financing plan
   • Explore Social Velocity’s financial plan services
3. Your approach to a community problem has become too narrow
   • Read The Risk of Small Thinking
   • Read If We Could Be So Bold
   • Read Losing the Charity Mindset
4. Your board is not helping to move the organization forward
   • Watch the Jump Starting Your Board webinar
   • Download our The Ten Traits of a Groundbreaking Board e-book
   • Invite Social Velocity to train your board on fundraising, social innovation or nonprofit growth
5. You can’t effectively articulate your nonprofit’s value to the community
   • Download the Creating a Theory of Change step-by-step guide
   • Read What Social Value Do Nonprofits Really Create?
   • Read Where Do You Fit in the Market?
6. You need money to strengthen the organization, but don’t know where to look
   • Download the Creating a Major Donor Campaign step-by-step guide
   • Read Making Donors Organization Builders
   • Read Can’t Small Nonprofits Raise Capital Too?
7. There is a much greater need for your nonprofit’s programs, but you can’t afford to grow
   • Read Fixing the World Requires Disruptive, not Incremental, Change
   • Explore Social Velocity’s growth planning process
   • Read Bringing Small Nonprofits to Scale
8. You’re worn out and need to be inspired
   • Read the Social Velocity interview series with social innovators

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