12You Are Unstoppable
Many things can improve your chances of success—as a solo philanthropist, the head of a small family foundation, or someone who is responsible for tens of millions of dollars in grants to nonprofit partners. In fact, we've already explored many of these things.
But what can you do to make you and your philanthropy unstoppable—a powerful force of nature that has the power to change people's lives, entire communities, and the world?
Over the years, I've found five specific strategies that, when applied—in tandem—can make you truly unstoppable.
This, of course, begs the question of whether you can do just one or two of these things and still improve your efficiency and effectiveness. Sure. By engaging in even one of these strategies, you will definitely improve your philanthropy. However, when you pursue them simultaneously—and keep at it over a sustained period of time—you'll find tremendous improvement in the way you do business over the long run.
It's important that we continuously stay on the alert for and eliminate steps, bottlenecks, barriers, and other obstacles to doing good because they constantly emerge and find their way into our organizations, our processes, and our mind-sets.
Remember: As you evolve as a philanthropist, what brought you success in the past may not bring you success in the future—what got you here won't necessarily get you there.
But we can't be unstoppable just by eliminating the bad. We have to innovate, adapt to changing circumstances, ...
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