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"Many go into nonprofit leadership unprepared for the twin demands of business management and measurable social impact. Finally, we have a resource that guides the way. Nick Grono's masterful How to Lead Nonprofits is a book I will be recommending for years to come." - Arthur C. Brooks, Professor, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School, and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Strength to Strength. For nonprofit leaders who want to strengthen their leadership and increase the effectiveness of their organizations, a guide to achieving greater impact - featuring success stories from real nonprofit leaders. Nonprofit leadership is hard. Most new nonprofit leaders are ill-prepared for the challenges they will face, and even those who are more experienced struggle to ensure their organizations deliver the change they are committed to.
About the Author
Nick Grono is an Australian human rights campaigner. He has been the CEO of the Freedom Fund since its founding in 2014. The Freedom Fund is a collaborative fund dedicated to ending modern slavery and human trafficking around the world. He has twenty years of leadership experience of US and international nonprofits, and another decade before that working in corporate law, government, and investment banking. Nick's past roles include CEO of the Walk Free Foundation, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, and Chief of Staff and National Security Adviser to the Australian Attorney-General. He has served on many nonprofit boards and currently is a member of the advisory council of Global Witness. He writes and speaks regularly on nonprofit leadership. Nick has briefed the United Nations Security Council and testified before parliamentary committees in the UK, Australia and the Netherlands. He has appeared on national and international tv and radio shows, and written for various international publications, including the New York Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Nick spent a number of years in his early life sailing around the world in a 100-year-old square-rigged sailing ship with his family and other crew members. He is Australian by birth, picked up Belgian and UK nationalities along the way, and is now lives between London and Brussels. His book "How to Lead Nonprofits", was published in July 2024.
