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title: A Small Nonprofit’s Bumpy Road to Success and Organizational Failure
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# A Small Nonprofit’s Bumpy Road to Success and Organizational Failure

By Anna Berry • Nonprofit Quarterly • April 18, 2018

> National coverage focused on the despair many older women felt about losing access to future versions of the beloved, groundbreaking guide to female health and empowerment—although it’s still widely available, the last edition was published in 2011. The publication’s lasting legacy, though, has seeded its own successors, proliferating far beyond what it uniquely produced a half-century ago. And therein lies the rub: Perhaps this is the organization we all wish to run, one so successful at its central mission that its reason for existence has waned.

  
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