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The Founder’s Trap Nobody Talks About —
Until It’s Too Late A Mission-Aligned Framework for Nonprofit Succession Planning By Valerie F. Leonard, Founder, Nonprofit Utopia, LLC When a beloved organization loses its founder — whether…
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Before You File: What Every Nonprofit Founder Needs to Know
You have a vision. You see the need in your community. You have the passion to do something about it. And you are ready to make it official…
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The Most Important Document (Almost) Never Written
How a Case for Support transforms your grant writing from a scramble into a system—and why every nonprofit leader needs one before sending another proposal. Every week, I…
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Stop Guessing. Start Knowing. How Nonprofit Leaders Can Use Free Census Data to Tell a More Powerful Story
You already know your community. You see the needs every day — the gaps in services, the families struggling, the potential going untapped. But when you sit down…
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What Type of Chicago Nonprofit Is Growing the Fastest?
My earlier analysis of Chicago’s nonprofit formation data looked at where organizations are forming — four geographic clusters, each with a distinct formation pattern. But the IRS Exempt Organizations data…
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Chicago Nonprofit Formation: The Tale of Four Clusters
I’ve been analyzing Chicago’s nonprofit formation data — all 4,212 organizations formed across the city’s 56 ZIP codes between 2021 and 2025, drawn directly from the IRS Exempt…
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