Category: Leadership
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The Founder’s Trap Nobody Talks About —
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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 to retirement, illness, or death — we find out very quickly what was actually built. Was it an institution with systems, shared…
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Vision Is Not Enough — You Have to Build the Thing
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Presidential Lessons in Institution Building for Nonprofit Leaders President’s Day is more than a federal holiday. For nonprofit leaders, it is an invitation to study the art and discipline of building institutions that outlast the people who created them. History remembers our greatest presidents not simply because they had vision…
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Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership Resilience In the New Normal
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On November 7, 2025, nonprofit leaders from across Chicago gathered at Impact House for a full day of learning, reflection, and renewal at “Cultivating Executive Resilience: A Leader’s Guide to Sustaining Impact.”The workshop, hosted by Nonprofit Utopia and facilitated by Steven J. Casey, Founder of SJC Consulting, tackled one of…