Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up, and Make a Difference - Paperback

by Kathleen Kelly Janus (Author)

With business advice from an expert entrepreneur, learn how to identify and leverage the key factors that will bring sustainability and success to your startup.

In order to make a difference, any modern nonprofit needs to achieve multimillion-dollar annual revenues. After surveying more than 200 high-performing entrepreneurs across the country--including the leaders of Teach for America, City Year, Donors Choose, charity: water, and Hot Bread Kitchen--Kathleen Kelly Janus is here to show you how to reach and sustain lasting organizational growth. Janus asked a simple question: "What is the key to nonprofit success?" The answers she received reveal five key strategies responsible for the most successful social startups:

• Testing Ideas
• Measuring Impact
• Funding Experimentation
• Leading Collaboratively
• Telling Compelling Stories

In these uncertain times, we need every bit of creativity and determination to find better solutions. The stories in Social Startup Success and the tools it recommends will help you to make your organization--whether a fledging startup or a large, well-established operation--thrive.

Author Biography

Kathleen Kelly Janus is the Senior Advisor on Social Innovation to Governor Gavin Newsom. As a social entrepreneur, author and lecturer at Stanford University's Program on Social Entrepreneurship, she is an expert on philanthropy, millennial engagement and scaling early stage organizations.