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This isn’t a new conclusion for us. In 2011, I wrote a thesis examining nonprofit systems—their structure, incentives, and outcomes. Even then, the patterns were clear: well-intentioned missions constrained by bureaucracy, delayed by process, and often disconnected from the people they claimed to serve. More than a decade later, after firsthand experience inside those systems, the conclusions have only hardened. What the Theory Got Right—and the Reality Confirmed Nonprofits a

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