Capacity-Building Grants: Learn to Be a Self-Sustaining Nonprofit, Part 1

One of the big reasons for that, says Tom Gagen, CEO of Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, is that many "small [nonprofit] agencies start up because of a special need in the community, but they have no idea what they're doing in the first year or two and just get way in over their head." Their intentions are pure, but they don't have the resources, training, time, staff and/or understanding to sustain their missions.