2.4: MSO EDs
Provide a support group and a leadership cohort for executive directors (EDs) of “management support organizations” (MSOs). Other Information:
A thriving nonprofit sector is one that embraces dynamic change—the kind fostered by high quality capacity building. Among
the people best positioned to ensure capacity building and expand a constituency for change are executive directors (EDs)
of “management support organizations” (MSOs). MSOs—nonprofit organizations that offer ongoing learning activities, broker
or directly offer consulting services, and bring a pool of resources to capacity building and to nonprofits—need knowledgeable,
innovative, determined leadership. The MSO EDs meet to exchange information and renew themselves—offering a support group
and a leadership cohort. Given turbulent times economically, socially and politically, the group brings people together to
share about the latest challenges, trends, experiments, and successes. Currently, an emphasis is on identifying how to expand
the MSO’s own funding base, long-term sustainability, and responsiveness to the times. It is carrying forward many conversations
over the years that have made a valuable difference in how well MSOs are able to practice what they profess about nonprofit
effectiveness.
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