Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
Your team has a big mission. Everyone’s working hard. And yet, somehow, it still feels like you’re not winning. That feeling has a name — and a fix. In the latest Pit Stop episode of Agile Driven Impact, Erich and I dug into one of the most underused tools in an Agile team’s toolkit: the Sprint Goal. Big goals — the kind that…
Nonprofit teams often feel overwhelmed by endless to-do lists and limited hours. When groups adopt Agile frameworks to manage collaborations, grant applications, or the implementation of programs and services, they frequently look for structure, especially if implementing the Scrum framework as a way to make Agile values a part of their daily way of working. However, strict frameworks can sometimes feel like a rigid lecture…
Building an Agile nonprofit does not start with a Sprint board. It starts with a mindset shift, and books are among the fastest ways to build it. Our team curated the Agile in Nonprofits bookshelf from titles we return to again and again in our own training, coaching, and grant writing work. Below, we break down what each book covers and how it supports…
Does your team ever feel constantly busy, yet somehow always behind? Are stakeholders escalating concerns, leadership scheduling extra check-ins, and your people working weekends just to keep up? If that sounds familiar, today’s episode of Agile Driven Impact has something important to say: what looks like a people problem is almost always a visibility problem. In Season 2, Episode 17, hosts Diane and Erich…
Heroic efforts carry a heavy cost in the nonprofit sector. We have all seen them happen. The grant application that forces the team to work all weekend. The deadline that means missing a child’s soccer game. The deliverable that gets finished only because staff members quietly absorb unsustainable stress. On Monday morning, leadership sends a “we did it!” email. However, no one discusses what…