Jan Masaoka: Non-Profit Boards – An Insider’s Perspective

   Jan Masaoka is a leading writer and thinker on nonprofit organizations with particular emphasis on boards of directors, business planning, and the role of nonprofits in society. She recently left her position of 14 years as executive director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, a consulting and training firm for nonprofits based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

   Jan writes the Board Café for nonprofit board members, a newsletter now with 44,000 subscribers authored The Best of the Board Café  and her research work includes  studies on women executive directors of color, executive director tenure, all-volunteer organizations, and nonprofit space & occupancy needs.  She is a frequent keynote speaker and contributor to nonprofit journals.  For the past eight years Jan has been named one of the "Fifty Most Influential People" in the nonprofit sector nationwide, and in 2003was named "Nonprofit Executive of the Year" by Nonprofit Times.