Term Limits for Nonprofit Boards

 In response to a recent blog, I was asked the following question:  What is your opinion on term limits for board members and officers?  Opinions are one thing of which I have no shortage.  So, be careful what you ask!

The debate on term limits has been waging for decades, if not centuries.  So, there is no “settled” answer to this question.  But my own answer is very firm:  term limits—both for board members and officers—are a must.  My reasons underlying this Read more

One of these things is not like the other

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If ever there were a time to be reminded that all nonprofits are not alike, now is it.  Independence Blue Cross is not the same as a health clinic in a poor neighborhood.  A university is not the same as the local literacy or GED Read more