Your small nonprofit has a crucial role to play in the chaos and conflict of American politics. I recently wrote about how nonprofits bridge the divisions in our country. I believe our traditional "public square"--civic organizations, houses of worship, and public schools--are increasingly homogenous and protective of their homogeneity. Homogeneity, however, is deadly to small nonprofits. It takes people of surplus means and privileges to source the mission of a nonprofit tha

In the United States, there are 1,571,056 nonprofit organizations. That's one nonprofit for every 202 people who live in the United States. This year, about one out of every four U.S. residents will volunteer at one of those nonprofits. Friend, if you're leading one of those nonprofits, I hope you see just how influential you can be. Most of the time when we talk about nonprofits, we talk about the difference they make in the lives of the people their programs serve. We talk