The Year You Build

Every January, the same question lands on mission-driven leaders: "What can we realistically accomplish this year?"

But realistic has a way of shrinking. It starts as pragmatism and ends as permission to stay small. The outreach program that could reach three new counties becomes "let's stabilize what we have." The mobile health clinic idea stays in the planning folder. The after-school expansion waits for "better timing."

And the organization enters December having maintained. Survived. Kept the lights on.

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