Nonprofits, How We Love Thee (Not!)

And now I shall be the skunk at the garden party and speak of the thing nonprofits can be willfully oblivious to, but which rest assured everyone talks about openly: Nonprofits can be a real pain to work with! As a hybrid — someone who works with for-profits but has roots in the nonprofit world — I hear this a lot. And I mean, a LOT. Specifically, here is the list of peeves that emerges from the for-profit world’s contractors, vendors, designers, consultants, et al.