Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind, Revised Edition

One of today's most acclaimed books on nonprofit leadership, Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind is a down-to-earth guide to mission-driven leadership. Drawing on his decades of experience as an acclaimed nonprofit leader, Alex Counts offers practical advice on such vital activities as fundraising, team-building, communications, and management. He shows you how to run an organization-and your own life-both effectively and sustainably, giving joyfully to those around you while also caring generously for yourself.

Changing the World was named one of Forbes magazine's 12 Must-Read Books for Nonprofit Employees, and selected as the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Editor's Pick among nonprofit books of 2019. Now it's available in a revised edition, including a new epilogue on leading in times of crisis, responding to the challenging realities nonprofit leaders have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of today's most acclaimed books on nonprofit leadership, Changing the World Without Losing Your Mind is a down-to-earth guide to mission-driven leadership. Drawing on his decades of experience as an acclaimed nonprofit leader, Alex Counts offers practical advice on such vital activities as fundraising, team-building, communications, and management. He shows you how to run an organization-and your own life-both effectively and sustainably, giving joyfully to those around you while also caring generously for yourself.

Changing the World was named one of Forbes magazine's 12 Must-Read Books for Nonprofit Employees, and selected as the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Editor's Pick among nonprofit books of 2019. Now it's available in a revised edition, including a new epilogue on leading in times of crisis, responding to the challenging realities nonprofit leaders have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Foreword by Muhammad Yunus

Introduction to the Revised Edition

Why This Book?

PART ONE: GETTING STARTED

1. Deciding to Make a Difference

2. Choosing to Be Bold

3. First Lessons in Leadership

4. Learning to Tell My Story

5. Laying a Foundation

6. Running My Own Show

PART TWO: LEARNING TO LEAD

7. Fundraising as a Win / Win / Win Proposition

8. Managing Up

9. When Leadership Is a Struggle

10. Turning Points

11. Coping with Success

12. Building a Great Board

13. Forging Partnerships

PART THREE; CARING FOR YOURSELF

14. Life in Balance

15. Beginner's Mind

16. Learning Acceptance

17. Living Generously

18. Letting Go

Epilogue: Leading in a Time of Crisis 

Acknowledgments

About the Author