As mission-driven organizations grow and evolve, the systems that served them in earlier stages often fail to scale alongside their aspirations – creating widening gaps between what they say, and what they do.

This is usually just due to the fact that smaller organizations don’t have the capacity or the in-house expertise to focus deeply on designing their internal operations. It makes sense – most of their bandwidth will rightly be spent on their core service, product, or external mission because that’s how and why they exist.

RESILIENCE is one of the few ideas I can hold tight to right now, which means it’s something that needs attention and nurturing. So let’s keep pulling the thread on what it means for us – as individual humans, as organizations, and as a community – at this moment in time.

But first let me be clear about what I do not mean by resilience: hustling more, ignoring our feelings and fears and just pushing through, or virtually anything that is not on the side of liberation.