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Advocacy Re-emphasized
Posted on: April 29, 2021 at 12:30 pm

By: ML Bennett, MPA, CAP® President & CEO, The Arc of San Antonio Marion Lee penned last July that “In 2005, Barbara Taylor, Richard Chait and William Ryan wrote Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Board.  This book and its follow-up: The Practitioners Guide to Governance as Leadership from Cathy Trower are not easy reads, but well worth the effort.  Chait and his co-authors present functional Board governance as a series of how-to’s (modes and mind-sets) versus the

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Leadership Reframed
Posted on: July 29, 2020 at 8:27 am

By Marion Lee, CFRE In 2005, Barbara Taylor, Richard Chait and William Ryan wrote Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Board.  This book and its follow-up: The Practitioners Guide to Governance as Leadership from Cathy Trower are not easy reads, but well worth the effort.  Chait and his co-authors present functional Board governance as a series of how-tos (modes and mind-sets) versus the more common concept of to-dos (tasks and technical).  In his

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Strengthening your program’s impact comes from evaluation
Posted on: August 6, 2017 at 2:55 pm

By Covita Moroney In working with our clients, particularly in the context of organizational assessments, Lee+ Associates team members consistently encounter nonprofit leaders who fully embrace the importance of demonstrating their program’s impact. My work with a current client (and past experiences as a nonprofit manager) quickly surfaced this core fact: most nonprofit staffs are completely occupied with the planning and delivery of their programs, and have little time to design and implement data systems

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