Tips From John Melia, Wounded Warrior Project

1. Recruit community evangelists. “You have to find people out there in the community who are going to talk about your cause. You have to build broad-based community support for your mission. And you have to have people that become evangelists for your cause. Evangelism opens up opportunities. People talking about you is important. If you’re in the nonprofit world and your cause is important enough to start a nonprofit around, then it’s important enough to build a broad base of community support around.”