featuring Jan Masaoka

Everyone talks about "hard choices" but what's seldom discussed is what makes a decision difficult, and how to make choices in the absence of either adequate information or consensus. Jan Masaoka will kick off a member discussion with some of the unconventional thinking for which she is known.

The Annual Meeting will also include a report from CEO Linda Davis and Board President Ken Preston. 

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 is currently the Director and Editor-in-Chief of an online nonprofit magazine Blue Avocado (www.blueavocado.org), which launched in April of 2008 and in June of 2009 had 50,000 subscribers. 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. In that position she was named Nonprofit Executive of the Year by NonProfit Times in 2003.

 For questions or more information please contact Christina at 415-448-0322 or cdragonetti@cvnl.org.