About Bill Ryan: Bill Ryan is a consultant to foundations and nonprofit organizations and a research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University. At Harvard, he currently directs the Nonprofit Governance and Accountability Project, a joint initiative of the Hauser Center and Harvard Law School aimed at engaging Harvard researchers in critical questions related to nonprofit governance. More broadly, his work centers on nonprofit organizational effectiveness. He has explored how several forces -- including nonprofit access to capital, foundation grant making practices, competition with for-profit firms, and nonprofit governance -- shape the capacity of nonprofits to deliver on their missions. His publications include High Performance Nonprofit Organizations (John Wiley & Sons, 1999) and, with Richard P. Chait and Barbara E. Taylor, Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), which has been honored with awards from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and Independent Sector. He holds a BA from Columbia University and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. About "Governance as Leadership": Governance as Leadership redefines nonprofit governance. It provides a powerful framework for a new covenant between trustees and executives: more macrogovernance in exchange for less micromanagement. Informed by theories that have transformed the practice of organizational leadership, this book sheds new light on the traditional fiduciary and strategic work of the board and introduces a critical third dimension of effective trusteeship: generative governance. It serves boards as both a resource of fresh approaches to familiar territory and a lucid guide to important new territory, and provides a road map that leads nonprofit trustees and executives to governance as leadership. Governance as Leadership was developed in collaboration with BoardSource. Winner of the 2005 Skystone Ryan Prize for Research from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and the 2005 John Grenzebach Award for Outstanding Research in Philanthropy for Education from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.