Growth Crises and Three Phases of Governance Response - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

Growth Crises and Three Phases of Governance Response - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly: Editors’ note: This article was adapted from “Board/Staff Relationships in a Growth Crisis: Implications for Nonprofit Governance,” originally published online, March 7, 2011, by the Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly (http://nvs.sagepub.com/content/41/1/82), and subsequently published in NVSQ’s print publication in 2012.1 The authors appreciate Peter Roberts’s extensive editing support for this article.

This article looks at the ways in which board/staff relationships played out in four small cultural organizations—two museums and two performing arts companies— as each passed through three distinct phases of a growth/financial crisis. This research may inform nonprofit boards and managers in a couple of ways: