At a recent conference of a state association of nonprofits, the audience was invited not to embrace the latest fad or to calls for building better mousetraps. Rather, participants took a journey into “Using the Powers You Have,” to explore the unique features of “nonprofit-ness” that everyone in the audience committed to missions already has. Call them inherent strengths, unfair advantages, or super powers, there are things about charitable nonprofits and the people dedicated to them that enable – empower – these organizations to persevere, perform, and even thrive in adversity. The presenter discussed six unique nonprofit powers; this article focuses on the first one: The Power of One. |