A periodic plea must again be made to those we know starting a nonprofit:  PLEASE, if you are trying to establish a sustainable community institution, don't start the easy way, the way of the family.  All too often, people establishing 501(c)(3)'s think about the requirement to have officers as a simple bureaucratic hurdle.  They don't understand that they are creating the foundation for governance and community responsiveness capacity that is dangerously fragile.  

The song of the stakeholder must be sung yet again.  Please tell all of the well-intentioned organization founders that you run across that they should think about whom will be benefited by the success or failure of the organization AND put representatives of those impacted parties on the board of trustees.  It never ceases to amaze me how people put only people they know, beginning with their own family.  Even more amazing, is how these same people have immense difficulty grasping why it is that they experience such great difficulty in gaining community awareness, credibility, advocacy and funding support.  By choosing the easy route, the path of least resistance and least consideration, founders frequently doom the organizational manifestation of their greatest passion to a life of struggle, if not an early demise.

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