Reframing Governance & Mission Success

It used to be that boards and governance were substantially the same: the two concepts overlapped. But with time and a radically changing environment,  the domain of “governance” has moved beyond the domain of “the board.”                               — Dr. David O. Renz   The Nonprofit

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Governance and the Dueling Cellos

We can talk about governance partnership and how working together improves mission and performance. We can write about governance partnership  and describe the how a relationship between leaders improves governance. Now we can hear what governance partnership might sound like when two leaders are playing together to

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Strategic Planning is Personal

I was asked recently by an Executive Director of another nonprofit organization what I thought was the key to strategic planning in nonprofit organizations? He was visiting ChildServe to learn about how we have used strategic planning to systematically expand the impact of the mission between 1992

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