Impacts on Governance Design for Nonprofit Organizations

There are eleven broad trends and forces that arc through the nonprofit ecosystem. Many of these are familiar because they have been signals of change for over a decade; yet the COVID-19 pandemic has made the call to action even louder. These trends and forces are urgent and game-changing for the design of governance, and converge to create six impacts that shape nonprofit organizations’ governance design – its culture, people, processes and structures. This resource enables nonprofit leaders to proactively respond to the impacts by reflecting on how they play out in their own organization’s governance – or should in the future. From the Ontario Nonprofit Network.