My startup experience taught me the importance of taking calculated risks in nonprofit leadership to improve program delivery and better serve our community.
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I'm back. Sorry. Yeah. Yeah. I think the difference is culturally, you know, in start ups, we are used to feeling more, and it's acceptable because the risk is, like, part of many people's DNA who enter the start up world.
And on the nonprofit side, there's a lot of risk aversion partly because the programs are, like, really deeply impacting people's lives, and that's what people are thinking about first and foremost. They don't wanna make a critical mistake in program delivery or in fundraising that drives the programs. So I understand why the mentality is that way, but it can sometimes be limiting. So that's something that, you know, I'm learning about, and I'm also kinda trying to bring my team along and, like, thinking about taking risks in the right way as long as they're not fatal risks. But it's okay to take some learning risks so that we can be better at the business of nonprofit so we can really be serving the kids and families that we're trying to do at Make A Wish Los Angeles.