A short recorded conversation (YouTube) between host Chrissy Myers and another speaker about scaling organizations. The speaker emphasizes treating nonprofits like businesses, operating properly to help people, and the critical need to invest in infrastructure early when growing from a small budget to a multimillion-dollar budget.
I want to shift back to the business part of what you're doing because you've grown an organization from a small budget now to a much larger budget, a multimillion dollar budget. So can you tell me, as you've been scaling, what some of those lessons are that you'd love to share to our small business owners?
1. If you are a nonprofit, view yourself as a business, treat your operations as a business. But if you're not operating your business properly, then you can't help people. I think as far as a small business goes in general, my biggest mistake is not investing in infrastructure. Soon enough. But we would have gotten to, we are now much, much quicker seek out those resources.
