Five Stories of Balance: What 250 Years of American Nonprofits Teach Us About Impermanence | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Five Stories of Balance: What 250 Years of American Nonprofits Teach Us About Impermanence | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash When we tell the story of American democracy, we usually tell it as a story of movements and victories. A revolution. An abolition. A Civil Rights Act. Women’s suffrage. Marriage equality. We mark the moments when the pendulum swings and we declare progress. But the real story—the one nonprofits have been living for 250 years—is messier. It’s not about winning. It’s about balancing. It’s about showing up in the …