An Opportunity To Innovate

The Laws of Supply and Demand. Your teacher explains the concept in tones that resonate somewhere in the comprehensible decibels of an orca whale.

When there is a higher demand than supply, prices increase. When there is a higher supply than demand, prices decrease.

Simple enough.

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But what happens when the law breaks? What happens when demand for a service is at an all-time high and price (or in this case revenue) is at a crushing low?

That’s the situation faith-based non-profits across America are currently facing. The need for their services is higher than ever. At the same time revenue is down.

There are no easy solutions. So I won’t attempt to offer one. Instead, I’d like to commend a simple thought.

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Non-profits have the greatest opportunity in their history to innovate in order to better serve their communities.

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It’s an opportunity to find new ways to become efficient and to get creative in ways that times of status quo don’t force upon us.

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God has a way of using challenges to show up in incredible ways. Think of Jesus feeding the 5,000. There was a logistics challenge that seemed impossible to overcome. Yet God used this as an opportunity to expand the disciple's view of what was possible when following this man named Jesus.

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Your organization has the God-given opportunity now to pivot, restructure, and refine in ways that you would have never considered possible in the past. Embrace that opportunity.

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One way to embrace the opportunity is by taking a look at the way you work. Staffing by far the largest expense for any non-profit. Finding the talent you need who is passionate about serving your community is often difficult. What if your non-profit began looking at building remote teams to staff? What if hiring contractors instead of full-time employees allowed you to cut expenses by 3% a year? What would that mean to your budget and the people you serve?

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P.S. I built Share because I believe that embracing remote teams is the future of how the church works. If you’re interested in embracing this new opportunity then check out ShareTalent.co.

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