The name of this blog has a double meaning, It is about governing better and about the non-profit sector as the area of collective action that seeks to directly “do good” in the world.
Some of work of doing good requires building more just and inclusive communities both within and without the organizations that make up the sector. This is perhaps the dominant challenge in striving to do good in the world today.
The subject matter here focuses on a few of the small and practical actions non-profits can take to make things better internally, to create some space for conversations about more systemic change. I believe that the ideas offered are transformative, if in less obvious ways.
I am confident that the posts and resources here are useful to boards and executive directors (or CEOs) who struggle with assumptions and practices that no longer serve them well, if they ever did. Many it seems, realize this. The site has over 60,000 visitors annually, a lot for such a specialized topic like non-profit governance.
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(Revised September 2022)