Just today, my newest article on nonprofit governance was published by the Stanford Social Innovation Review titled “Spotting and Fixing Dysfunctional Nonprofit Boards.” It links to a detailed case study of a dysfunctional nonprofit board that I was part of, which was one of the most unpleasant and painful experiences of my career.
Hopefully, these will both fill a void in terms of tangible and practical guidance about how to build a high functioning nonprofit governing body and what it looks like when an organization fails to do that.
The fall is turning out to be quite busy for me, even as the world around all of us becomes more surreal by the hour. My (now online) class on nonprofit leadership and social innovation at the University of Maryland is underway. I am looking at taking on more nonprofit clients, which should be exciting. Some of that work will relate to improving the performance of nonprofit governing bodies.
Furthermore, I am speaking about nonprofit leadership as a guest lecturer at a graduate level class at Hong Kong University this Friday, followed by a one hour author talk and webinar hosted by the University of Virginia at Charlottesville on Monday at 5pm. The latter is open to the public and you can register for it here.
For the UVA event, the organizers bought 50 copies of both of my books, which are being given to the first 50 undergraduate students who register. Nice!
I have been implementing many of the recommendations people have given me to increase the buzz about my most recent book, When in Doubt, Ask for More – and they are helping. Thanks to everyone who has contributed ideas or helped in other ways.
I continue to post weekly videos on nonprofit leadership lasting about 5 minutes each on my YouTube channel. I think I finally got the lighting in my makeshift home studio close to decent.