Focus on Your Theory of Change
Without a clear understanding of how your organization creates change, the anxiety and conflict will continue. Without understanding impact, many nonprofit boards default to governance by financial control. It is time to go back to the fundamentals of how you create change because strategy and decision making must be driven by a nonprofit theory of change.
Nonprofit Board Lane Changes
We are in challenging times and the systems supporting nonprofit organizations are buckling. The degree to which we recover is the degree that we bring down the tension in nonprofit board rooms and remind ourselves what lane to belong in and respond accordingly. Until we recognize that all nonprofit organizations are in different lanes on the same road, guidance in the board room will seem undifferentiated and lead to otherwise preventable accidents and deaths.
Collaboration and Nonprofit Developmental Stages
We must face the reality that we are at the front end of a fundamental reordering of the nonprofit sector and, as a nonprofit, you can be dragged along because of agency and leadership hubris or you can control your place in the reordering.