Take a look at the advisers and directors of the nonprofit Foundation for Defense of Democracies and you’ll notice a lot of names with a similar political bent: Steve Forbes. Newt Gingrich. Jeane Kirkpatrick. Bill Kristol. Gary Bauer. Richard Perle. Charles Krauthammer. Even FDD’s Democrats — Joe Lieberman and Zell Miller — are known for […]
Yesterday’s New York Times had a fascinating piece about a tough situation faced by the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, an addition to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that is just about to open. It’s a story about the influence a deep-pocketed board member can have, the complex relationships between a nonprofit’s board and […]
Last month the Nonprofit Center at La Salle University brought together a handful of funders for a panel discussion of tips and trends. Representatives of dozens of nonprofits packed a meeting room in the basement of PECO Energy’s Center City Philadelphia headquarters to listen in, and the Center was kind enough to […]
Maybe it’s the former PR guy in me, but even as the fallout from the Red Cross’s cashiering of CEO Mark Everson becomes more sordid, I find some very positive stuff for the organization to hang its hat on. As the NonProfit Times reported recently, not only did the married Everson have an affair with […]
Board members are the primary stewards of nonprofits — the men and women charged with setting the direction and with making changes should the organizations drift away from that direction. It should be obvious that in addition to their leadership, the most visible and importantly symbolic way for boards to benefit their nonprofits is through […]
It would be run-of-the-mill dispute about board composition if not for one thing.
Race.
And race changes everything.
From an AP report earlier today:
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The National Civil Rights Museum, built around the motel where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, is drawing criticism that its governing board is too white and too […]
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