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If every win creates more strain, you’re likely underfunding infrastructure.
🧠Today’s belief shift: A budget is a design tool. If you don’t fund the true cost—people, tools, stewardship, reserves—you fund burnout.
Under-resourced ops steal focus from programs and make growth feel like a trap.
Today’s leadership prompt is simple:
For one initiative, what 10–15% infrastructure line will you add—and how will you explain to donors why it protects impact?
📥 Download: True-Cost Checklist + Capacity Compass Quiz [LINK]
🎯 Ready to price and message the real cost? The Aligned Anchors Budgeting Toolkit walks you through it.
Use code STRONG26 to get 26% off during this series.
Want to work together?
Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.
Budget under $800K? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!
Connect with me!
By Brooke Richie-Babbage4.9
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If every win creates more strain, you’re likely underfunding infrastructure.
🧠Today’s belief shift: A budget is a design tool. If you don’t fund the true cost—people, tools, stewardship, reserves—you fund burnout.
Under-resourced ops steal focus from programs and make growth feel like a trap.
Today’s leadership prompt is simple:
For one initiative, what 10–15% infrastructure line will you add—and how will you explain to donors why it protects impact?
📥 Download: True-Cost Checklist + Capacity Compass Quiz [LINK]
🎯 Ready to price and message the real cost? The Aligned Anchors Budgeting Toolkit walks you through it.
Use code STRONG26 to get 26% off during this series.
Want to work together?
Apply for the Next Level Nonprofit Mastermind, a high-touch coaching and training accelerator for established organizations that are ready to install a powerful nonprofit Operating System to sustain impact at scale.
Budget under $800K? Join Elevate and get proven step-by-step playbooks + coaching support to build each of the core elements of your nonprofit's operating system - strategic clarity, a fundraising engine, a high-performance team, and an active and engaged board!
Connect with me!

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