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If I Had a Hammer by Jan Masaoka
Jan Masaoka's final essay as Executive Director of CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.

Why Boards Don't Govern by Jan Masaoka & Mike Allison
Challenging conventional wisdom about nonprofit boards, this article from the Board Café was reprinted in the Grassroots Fundraising Journal.

Eight Reforms: What We Really Need by Jan Masaoka & Jeanne Bell
A daring response to the Senate Finance Committee, in Stanford Social Innovation Review.

The Case for Learning is the Case for Training by Jan Masaoka & Ken Goldstein
Appreciating the importance and impact of nonprofit training programs.

9.5 on the Richter Scale by Jan Masaoka
A still-requested speech from 1998 to the Forum of Bay Area Community Foundations, this speech addresses the issues for nonprofits facing earthquake-like challenges.

A Capacity Building Call to Arms by Jan Masaoka
Keynote speech to the Alliance for Nonprofit Management.

Executive Transitions Monographs
This series is managed jointly by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, TransitionGuides, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and underwritten by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.

Capturing the Power of Leadership Change by CompassPoint and TransitionGuides
Interim Executive Directors: The Power of the Middle by Tim Wolfred
Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations by Frances Kunreuther
Founder Transitions: Creating Good Endings and New Beginnings by Tom Adams

How Foundations Add Value and Imperatives for the Future by Jim Canales
Keynote speech to the CompassPoint/Chevron Nonprofit Day conference.

Stepping Up: A Board's Challenge in Leadership Transition by Tim Wolfred
Nonprofit Quarterly, Summer 2005

Government Funding: Use It Well by Jeanne Bell,
Published by Nonprofit Quarterly.

The eNonprofit: A Guide to ASPs, Internet Services and Online Software by Michael Stein and John Kenyon . Published by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services.

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