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When nonprofit boards clash over grassroots values versus professional growth

Our nonprofit board is split between the founders who want to keep things grassroots and newer members who think we need to professionalize to have real impact and every meeting feels like we're fighting about our soul as an organization.

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Competing visions of organizational development are creating an existential crisis about identity and effectiveness.

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