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When your nonprofit faces merger after decades of leadership

I started this literacy nonprofit twenty years ago and now the board wants to merge with a bigger organization and I feel like I am watching my child get adopted by strangers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The founder confronts the dissolution of their life's work as an extension of their own mortality and relevance.

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