Are you running a nonprofitor a job you created for yourself?

You started this because you saw a problem nobody else was solving the way it needed to be solved. You built the program. You filed the paperwork. You raised the first dollars. You hired the first staff.

Now you are the one approving every invoice, writing the grant at midnight, fielding the staff member who needs to know how to handle a situation you have explained four times before. You are carrying the relationships, the strategy, the operations, the fundraising, the board prep, and the program design, all at once.

That is not leadership. That is a job you built for yourself, and the job has gotten bigger than you.

Take this honestly. Score yourself the way you would if no funder, board chair, or staff member were ever going to see it. The point is not to feel good. The point is to see clearly.