If your financial house is not in order, your mission will suffer. One of the major issues for American society in the immediate future is privacy. This poses a particular problem to nonprofits. With foundations developing new priorities for giving, public sector funds are going to become more important in the lives of many nonprofits. Receipt of local, state and federal monies will increasingly conflict with the privacy and dignity philosophy of many nonprofits.
Diversity is another issue.
Organizations increasingly want to change their component mix. What they don't realize is that the organizational culture must change if diversification is going to be permanent rather than cosmetic. Organizational culture cannot be hegemonic. As for boards - there is general acceptance today of collaborative methodology in designing mission statements and strategic plans. But if the sector of society the board wants to positively impact and include is not represented on the board, collaborative ideology becomes moot.