At my independent school, our board is a combination of alumni & current parents of students. These powerful intrinsic loyalties to the institution over both short & long time scales help A LOT to prevent death spirals.

At a functional non-profit, the board & management work together synergistically.

Except under rare circumstances, this kind of scenario represents a primary issue with management, not the board (other than the board allowing management to fail & not replacing incompetent leader(s)).

You definitely need to rely on the board members to both donate themselves & do fund-raising outreach both exploiting existing networks & building them out, this MUST be planned, organized, and supervised by professionals.

Non-profit fundraising is a complicated realm of expertise & expecting board members to "just do it" is as absurd as expecting them, e.g., to prepare & file the entity's annual 990 tax returns.

While the columnist casually throws out "maybe if you don't have a director of development on staff you should think about it" as an aside, this is THE ENTIRE THING.

I might be retconning this, but I think I may have actually seen them play Maxwell's in the 80s...

There are plenty; they are just not apparently interested in spending their money on giving Dems a fighting chance on stuff like this.

I graduated law school in 1998, and since its founding in 2001, all the ACS has done is ask me for money...

It's not succeeding...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It's Philly, so everybody's got a theory... 😹 😹 😹

It appears that there are competing etymologies for hoagie w no clear winner.

Knowing you, he received many treats when you got home after the party!

Interesting! Other than WRT surviving spouse, US laws let you do whatever you want w your estate.

I guess it was kids shooting off a string of M-80s or smthg...