#NonprofitLeaders: There is always a third door…

...whether you are trying to connect with potential funders, get introduced to a potential partner, serve on a policy panel, or testify before congress.

When you go through the front door, you are one of many people and organizations waiting your turn for an audience. There are procedures, letters of interest, and most challenging of all gatekeepers.

We all have heard of the back door, this is the door the privileged few have access to, whether because of their celebrity, fortune, or influence. The back door is often oblique and impenetrable.

But there is always a third door, a third pathway. Finding this third door requires resilience, flexibility, and creativity. There is no one way to get in… no sure path.

You can find it if you are willing to try, experiment, fail, and try again.

It surely will involve a mindset of generosity, of relationship, and of the long term.

It will likely not be transactional, a one off, and obvious.

Most of all it will require you to imagine your future organization to leap from where you are.

Now you: How have you found the “third door”?

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