Picture this: you're on the board of a nonprofit organization where your executive director just resigned, or worse, was fired. Finances are near bankruptcy. Morale is in the tank. Staff are resigning left and right. You have no succession plan. The board is burnt out, and no one from senior management can step in. You don’t have visibility on the depth of the problems, let alone the ability to attract a great candidate to take over this mess. It's a sh*tshow. So what do you

An interim executive director (IED) or interim CEO is hired to perform a full-time but temporary position while an organization goes through a period of transition, usually 6 to 18 months.

By Nastia Voynovskaya, May 16, 2024 KQED A new CEO has stepped in to lead Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA), the embattled...

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Social services are a confusing patchwork of government and nonprofit organizations with no clear front door.