Nonprofits Should Follow Businesses’ Example in Learning From Errors, Say Authors

Sharing Failure Stories Can Help Nonprofits Build Better Programs, Say Authors 1 Enlarge Image
close Sharing Failure Stories Can Help Nonprofits Build Better Programs, Say Authors 1

Charities and grant makers should not fear failures but embrace them as opportunities to learn valuable lessons, write Robert Giloth and Colin Austin in their new book, Mistakes to Success: Learning and Adapting When Things Go Wrong.

Mr. Giloth is vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, in Baltimore, and Mr. Austin is program director at MDC, a group in ChapelHill, N.C., that focuses on economic and work-force development.

For this book, they collected case