By Monika Kalra Varma, CEO, BoardSource and Jamie Allison, Executive Director, Walter & Elise Haas Fund

We are living in a time of profound change and complexity.Maintaining community safety nets, advancing justice, expanding opportunity, and centering and honoring the dignity of all is more...

Preview a checklist tool for nonprofit boards seeking to govern with clarity, confidence, and purpose in an uncertain environment.

Inspired by Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund's purpose-driven approach, BoardSource President and CEO Monika Kalra Varma and David Onek sat down for a virtual fireside chat to explore insights on the practicalities and the possibilities of operationalizing PDBL principles within their...

At any given moment, nonprofit boards are faced with juggling multiple opposing forces. Boards are excited to charge ahead with the organization's work but at the same time required to continually adapt to change, moved by urgency but hesitant about severely limited capacity, ambitious yet stymied...

“The recognition that organizational power and voice must be authorized by those impacted by the organization’s work.”

These words come from BoardSource’s new way of framing the role of nonprofit governing boards. And they resonate profoundly with me and my colleagues at Fund for Shared Insight, a...

Leadership within the social sector today is as challenging as ever. As a generation of long-tenured executives steadily matriculate out of institutional leadership roles, staff, boards and representatives from all facets of social sector organizations – as well as the communities we care most...

Billy Shore of Share Our Strength, the parent organization for the No Kid Hungry campaign, responds to BoardSource’s CEO, Anne Wallestad's new way of framing the nonprofit board’s role, and a call for what we’ve termed “Purpose-Driven Board Leadership.”

“The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven...