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When co-founders disagree about scaling and staying true to mission

My co-founder and I started this nonprofit because we both experienced food insecurity growing up, but now that we're scaling, she wants to professionalize everything and I feel like we're losing the grassroots connection that made this work in the first place. We keep having the same circular argument about growth versus authenticity and I don't think either of us is hearing what the other is really afraid of losing.

Juana
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Two people who share a foundational experience are discovering they have fundamentally different theories about how to honor that experience through their work.

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