Mission to Systems: Building Institutions That Endure (Mission to Systems Series)
Language: English
Published by ITRD, 2026
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- Title
- Mission to Systems: Building Institutions That Endure (Mission to Systems Series)
- Author
- Renner, Sylvester
- Publisher
- ITRD
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0986023051
- ISBN 13
- 9780986023057
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: Mission to Systems Series
You started with passion. You saw a need others overlooked. You built something that works. But as your organization grew — more programs, more staff, more donors — you discovered something troubling: the systems that carried you early on can't carry you much further.
Mission to Systems™ is a practitioner's guide for nonprofit founders, executive directors, and board leaders navigating this critical transition. Written by Sylvester Renner, founder of Develop Africa, from twenty years of building a nonprofit across the United States and Sierra Leone — with the board meeting minutes, the IRS Form 990 data, the program failures, and the structural turning points included.
This is not theory borrowed from a consulting firm. It is documented practice.
Sylvester Renner incorporated Develop Africa in 2006 with no staff, no office, and no donors. Over twenty years he grew the organization from a $23,918 formation-year budget to a peak of $425,056 — deploying over $3.3 million documented across nineteen years of IRS Form 990 filings and raising over $857,000 through GlobalGiving, where Develop Africa holds Superstar status.
Inside, you'll learn how to:
- Define the real problem your organization exists to solve
- Build governance that actually governs — not governance that exists on paper
- Establish financial systems that make your organization explainable to funders and auditors
- Reduce founder dependency before crisis forces the conversation
- Scale in a way that strengthens your institution rather than straining it
- Founders and executive directors ready to move beyond improvisation
- Board members who know something structural must change
- Funders and capacity-building practitioners who see the same patterns repeat
- Leaders in under-resourced environments where weak systems show up fast
- Real examples from Develop Africa's journey — mistakes, turning points, and lessons learned
- Diagnostic tools and decision frameworks you can apply immediately
- Twenty years of financial data, board records, and program history included
Mission begins the work. Systems sustain it.
Fifteen percent of royalties from every copy sold support student scholarships through Develop Africa in Sierra Leone.
Also available: the Mission to Systems™ free governance toolkit (13 tools, no cost) and companion video course at missiontosystems.com.
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