Adapting Quote by Anna Maria Chavez

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

— Seth Godin

One of my frustrations is that we in society generally have this bifurcation in how we see the world. That's probably a little less…

— Nicholas Kristof

The [nonprofit] sector is the natural home of nonmajoritarian impulses, movements and values. It comfortably harbors innovators, maverick movements, groups which feel they must…

— John W. Gardner

Perhaps the most striking feature of the [nonprofit] sector is its relative freedom from constraints and its resulting pluralism.

— John W. Gardner

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The millennial generation and a growing number of employees are looking for more than just a paycheck. If a nonprofit could make that easy…

— Gerald Chertavian

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born…

— John W. Gardner

Some corporations are extremely well managed; some nonprofit organizations are. It has nothing to do with the sector. It has to do with quality…

— Frances Hesselbein

Non-profit organizations think like non-profit organizations. That's the problem.

— Jeff Henderson

“I have noticed most of the "non-profit" organizations are owned from the wealthy rich philanthropists, but are managed and run from poor philanthropists, and…

— Zybejta Beta Metani' Marashi

We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how…

— Katherine Boo