If a foundation's governance has a leadership impact on community, does it not stand to reason that a foundation board might undertake a concerted and ongoing program of development for and about itself?
What about grantees? What about boards of education? If we assess the resilience and leadership capacity of nonprofit boards, what do we find?
Some would suggest that it is in local governance, particularly as practiced in the nonprofit and civil sectors, that democracy in its truest, grassroots sense will either flourish and sustain the American experience or keep fading into the unrest of cynicism and despair that so many Americans feel about government and society today.
Are we willing to gamble that someone will respond effectively in time to climate change? Are we willing to live in hope that someone else will respond to this global change impacting us all, regardless borders, beliefs or bank accounts? Or shallwe perhaps stand fast that this too shall pass?
Above: The Community Group, an African American leadership group, regularly convenes community to educate itself about needs and emerging issues, not to teach or tell, but to listen so that the Group can better serve. The Community Group's board is all the members. The Community Group is the board. The board is the Community Group.
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