In an important article in Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), BoardSource’s CEO, Anne Wallestad, offers up a new way of framing the nonprofit board’s role, and a call for what we’ve termed “Purpose-Driven Board Leadership”.
With perspectives that are informed by BoardSource’s years of research and work with nonprofit boards and executives, and informed by a wide range of leaders and thinkers in the field of social sector leadership, “Purpose-Driven Board Leadership” centers on four key principles that we believe should drive nonprofit board leadership and thinking.
In the face of increasingly pressing systemic inequities, nonprofit boards must change the traditional ways they have worked and instead prioritize an organization’s purpose, show respect for the ecosystem in which they operate, commit to equity, and recognize that power must be authorized by the people they’re aiming to help.
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