In a kind-of Sodom and Gomorrah scenario, from the Daily Mail we learn that the backers of a $5 million Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership:
celebrating good governance in Africa said Monday they cannot find anyone to award this year... Contenders include democratically-elected former African heads of state or government who have left office in the last three years... In a statement, the panel said: 'The prize committee welcomed the progress made on governance in some African countries while noting with concern recent setbacks in other countries.'
Says one of the prize panelists, "if it had been a prize for excellence among European leaders this year 'we wouldn't necessarily have so many getting a big prize'".
Now, I recognize that there are some pretty big differences between governing a country and governing a nonprofit, but I wonder, if such a panel went looking to recognize exemplary nonprofit governance, would they be successful? And, what criteria would they use? That the organization produced the results they said they would? (Assuming the board had something to do with that.) Hm....