The No-BS Book for the Busy Nonprofit Boss
The High-Growth Nonprofit
Proven Steps to Quickly Double Your Revenue and Drive Impact
This inaugural book by nonprofit rapid-growth pro and CauseMic Co-founder and CEO Matt Scott wastes no time, so you can learn to quickly grow your nonprofit and get back to doing just that.
It’s full of lessons learned from more than a decade spent helping nonprofit leaders fully fund their missions, including numerous stints inside the walls of high-growth nonprofits, such as Team Rubicon.
Leaders can expect to learn how to:
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Adopt and hone a growth mindset, establish your mission’s North Star, and bring your vision to life for a great cause.
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Cultivate a culture where your mission’s greatest asset—it’s people—can thrive in a fast, high-growth environment.
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Unlock the efficiency and potential growth of concrete processes at every step.
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Leverage the right technology at the right time to match your mission’s phase of growth.
What leaders are saying:
I've worked in both the marketing and nonprofit spaces for nearly two decades, and The High-Growth Nonprofit is the most practical guide for success I've come across. Matt's wealth of experience, witty humor, and gold nuggets of wisdom make this a must-read for any nonprofit leader to maximize their organization's impact.
Drew Friedrich
COO at Operation Blessing
I plowed through the book on my flight back from a conference where I heard Matt speak. I’ve ordered copies for my whole team, as this is the most valuable book I’ve ever come across for leaders trying to make sense of all the things to do to grow.
Dafny Vogel
VP of Marketing at Greater Good Charities
The biggest take-away from the book was identifying all single points of failure. I am our single point of failure. Task by task, I am creating descriptions and have already handed off some of them. Thank you for that!
Carla Grant
Executive Director at Open Hearts Open Minds
This is the book I wish I had when building our nonprofit Project Koru. I love how easy it is to put it to use leading my team.
Tonia Farman
CEO at Queen of Hearts
The secrets behind a high-growth nonprofit are captured right here in easy to execute lessons. A must-read for a busy leader ready to spearhead their growth.
Jake Wood
Co-founder and Executive Chairman at Team Rubicon
This is an actionable and insightful read to increase your nonprofit’s impact. Matt has a friendly, honest writing style, making it fun to read. He shares plenty of examples and takeaways.
Drew Keske
Director, Sustainability Experiences at The Momentum
I rarely read a book in a single setting, but your straightforward, fast-paced, and light-hearted presentation found me wanting to know what you would share next. Before I knew it, I was done reading, and the better for it. I love the specificity and the accessibility of the frameworks and examples that you provided.
Steven Cohn
Founder at Write It For Me
Read Matt Scott’s “The High Growth Nonprofit,” if you aspire to shed that 5% annual growth plan and replace it with exponential growth. Are you asking, “How do we get to the next level?” Read Matt’s book.
Tony Martignetti
Host at Nonprofit Radio podcast
Making decisions can be hard. Matt shares important frameworks to make decision-making easy and directly tied to growth.
David Schwab
Director of Growth Marketing at Funraise
A big thing that changed for me is my mindset. The way I look at fundraising BB (before the book) vs AB (after the book) has changed. I think bigger now. I realize that we can do so much more if we're strategic.
Pamela Slaughter
Founder and Executive Director at People of Color Outdoors
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About the author
Besides being an early riser, Matt Scott is the CEO and Co-founder of CauseMic, a Portland-based consultancy helping nonprofits leverage the best-in-class for-profit methods to grow their organization. Before CauseMic, he was in your shoes as a fundraising leader on the inside of numerous young and fast nonprofits—one of which he helped take from $275,000 to $51 million in seven years. He’s a builder and a doer with a vision for scaling his company while balancing profitability with employee profit-sharing and respect.
“Running a nonprofit does not leave you with a lot of free time, so I really wanted to give mission leaders a quick read with actionable strategies. A book that could be read on a domestic flight and left on the seat because it’s all about moving fast and thinking boldly about your nonprofit’s growth.”
– Matt Scott
About CauseMic
CauseMic is a nonprofit growth consultancy, helping organizations quickly double their revenue and impact. We’ve worked with global organizations as well as great missions from around the corner.
The Rapid Growth Workshop
A marathon-long strategic planning process won’t give you that high-growth payoff at the finish line. You’ll end up with months of research in a pretty PDF, which none of your hardworking staff has time to read.
Speed and simplicity is the real growth formula.
CauseMic’s Rapid Growth Workshop takes leadership teams through an intensely structured, streamlined—down to the nuts and bolts—strategic planning process that rewards them with an action-oriented plan in-hand on their way out.