This space is for practitioners — executive directors, board members, nonprofit staff, funders, and community members — to respond to the research, share observations from their own organizations, and engage with others navigating the same structural challenges. Community input open through August 2026.
Responses may be incorporated, anonymized, into subsequent versions of the research. Identifying information is never shared without explicit permission.
Observations submitted by practitioners across the sector. Submissions are lightly edited for clarity and displayed with permission.
“We hired three executive directors in four years. Each departure was treated as a leadership failure. The board structure that made each role untenable was never examined.”
“Our board self-assessment scores well every year. I have no idea what it is actually measuring.”
“We have been told the community we serve is hard to engage. We have never formally asked them to govern with us.”
Community input open through August 2026. Governance reform that does not incorporate the perspectives of practitioners closest to the problem reproduces the same error it critiques. The five-dimension framework was built from experience across thirteen organizations. It will be refined through yours.