CHAPTER 1
Got Good Governance?
All nonprofit boards have one thing in common. They do not work.
—Peter Drucker
Since you are looking at a book entitled Good Governance for Nonprofits, chances are that you are a board member, a CEO, or a staff member of a nonprofit organization. If so, you are in good company. There are almost two million nonprofit organizations in the United States, all of which have boards and most of which have someone functioning as the CEO. Tens of thousands of these nonprofits have sizable staffs.
While you may not agree totally with Peter Drucker's rather stark assessment of nonprofit boards, we suspect that you can think ...
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