This month, we talk with author, teacher, lawyer, and nonprofit-founder Kathleen Kelly Janus about her new book, Social Startup Success: How the Best Nonprofits Launch, Scale Up and Make a Difference. Kathleen is a lawyer by training, but is a social entrepreneur herself and now lectures on social entrepreneurship at Stanford.

As part of our series on building an outcomes-focused culture, we wanted to talk with Kathleen about some of the challenges and best practices she observed while doing her research for the book. We cover some of the same questions we covered with Sammy and Scott from the Arbor Brothers — namely, how can nonprofits move beyond the catch-22 situation of having to secure funding to collect data but also needing to collect data to secure funding, and how nonprofits can move beyond building out tools and systems to focusing on building a sustainable culture. In addition, we talk about the challenges of building evaluation capacity at well-established versus early stage organizations, lessons these well-established organizations can learn from the book, and some strategies for leveraging human resources to build culture.

You can learn more about Kathleen on her website — www.kathleenjanus.com. She’s got a bunch of great tools and resources on her website, so make sure you check them out.

Thank you for listening! Next month, we’re finishing up our series on building an outcomes-focused culture by talking with Nikki Thompson, the Executive Director of OneGoal-New York. Nikki has been in the trenches building up her organization and she will share some of the lessons learned from the field. Be sure to join us for the conversation!

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