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Scenario

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.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

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

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Animal rights and moral consideration?”

Peri

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