By Deborah Davidson, BoardSource vice president of governance, education, and research
Back in the ‘70s, a wonderful Wicked Witch named Evillene rocked Broadway in a soul version of The Wizard of Oz called The Wiz. Her signature song was "Don't Nobody Give Me No Bad News." It's an understandable...
moreIn 2009, in response to the challenging landscape in which nonprofits found themselves following the financial crisis, BoardSource introduced the concept of "Transformative Governance." I wrote a long article for Board Member, BoardSource’s member periodical, in which I explained that if boards are...
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The Future is now History.
The 2011 BoardSource Leadership Forum, “Governing Toward the Future,” is now in the past. I, along with more than 600 of the most interesting and knowledgeable nonprofit leaders from across the country, enjoyed two full days of discussion, debate, deliberation, and...
moreAs I write this, the East Coast is recovering from the effects of Hurricane Irene, a storm that didn’t quite live up to her advance billing, but that wreaked billions of dollars in damages and claimed at least 49 lives. The biggest earthquake in 50 years just shuddered through the region, causing...
moreEvery five years the Meyer Foundation and CompassPoint sponsor a study of nonprofit executive leadership called “Daring to Lead.” Focused on job satisfaction, executive transitions, financial sustainability, and board relations, the 2011 results can be found here. As a nonprofit chief executive...
moreIn my last two posts, I have asked that (sadly) perennial question, "Where was the board?" In each of those organizations I wrote about -- the Central Asia Institute and the Fiesta Bowl -- the board appeared to be on the lam from any serious oversight or even, it appears, much interest, relative to...
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