New Article: Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future
Posted by Stanford Social Innovation Review on June 3, 2025
Leading a business is hard. Leading a nonprofit is even harder. And the headwinds are only growing stronger as charitable donations decline and as government funding faces uncertainty. Despite these challenges, training for nonprofit leaders and board members has not materially changed in the past 25 years. The authors of this new article argue that more can be done:
“We believe part of the solution lies in nonprofit board fellows programs: experiential learning opportunities, offered typically in business schools, which enable professional graduate students to serve as board members and consultants for local nonprofits while also participating in some form of governance training.”
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