The Nonprofit Governance Architect
by Jennifer Dow-Rowell
Nonprofit problems rarely start where they show up. A micromanaging board. An indispensable founder. A burned-out CEO. A succession plan nobody wants to talk about. A funding relationship that starts quietly reshaping the organization. Those may look like people problems. Often, they're architecture problems. The Nonprofit Governance Architect is a podcast about what sits underneath nonprofit leadership and governance challenges: the systems, structures, relationships, decisions, and power dynamics that determine whether an organization can actually do its work, and survive the people currently doing it. Hosted by nonprofit Executive Director Jenn Dow-Rowell, each episode takes a real-world nonprofit challenge and asks a different question: What is it about the architecture of this organization that allowed this problem to exist in the first place? Expect practical frameworks, candid conversations about no
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The 30-Day Test: Is Your Nonprofit Inconvenienced or Destabilized?
What would happen if your CEO disappeared for 30 days? Not quit, not fired, just gone. Would your nonprofit be inconvenienced… or destabilized? In the first episode of The Nonprofit Governance Architect, host Jenn Rowell introduces the 30-day test: a simple, uncomfortable question that reveals…
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About this show
Nonprofit problems rarely start where they show up.
A micromanaging board. An indispensable founder. A burned-out CEO. A succession plan nobody wants to talk about. A funding relationship that starts quietly reshaping the organization.
Those may look like people problems. Often, they're architecture problems.
The Nonprofit Governance Architect is a podcast about what sits underneath nonprofit leadership and governance challenges: the systems, structures, relationships, decisions, and power dynamics that determine whether an organization can actually do its work, and survive the people currently doing it.
Hosted by nonprofit Executive Director Jenn Dow-Rowell, each episode takes a real-world nonprofit challenge and asks a different question: What is it about the architecture of this organization that allowed this problem to exist in the first place?
Expect practical frameworks, candid conversations about no
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Jennifer Dow-Rowell
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