Our vision at Agile in Nonprofits is to support nonprofit organizations in their Agile transformation so that they can achieve a greater impact in their communities faster than ever before. Usually, we are talking with existing nonprofits about how it is that they can first start utilizing the Scrum framework within their existing organizational structure and culture. But it leaves us wondering…what if the way that for-profit start-up businesses embrace Agile, a nonprofit, uses the Scrum framework to launch the organization? Would they grow faster than other new nonprofits? Would they collaborate more? Would they look or sound different from other nonprofits?
There are so many questions about what it looks like to have a nonprofit founded using Agile principles! Therefore, Jessica and I were excited to have a chance to hear directly from Eric Englemann to learn about how he used Agile principles and the Scrum framework to found and grow the nonprofit New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative (NewBoCo).