Yesterday, Compasspoint celebrated its 40th Anniversary at the Oakland Museum with over 250 of its friends and supporters. As a CompassPoint board member and long-time beneficiary of its trainings and publications, I strongly encourage others to check out the organization and its theory of change with a focus on “leaders, organizations, and movement networks committed to social justice.” Have a listen to Stevie Wonder’s Happy Birthday while perusing our curated nonprofit tweets of the week:

• Nonprofit Quarterly: The Queens Library scandal serves as a good reminder of the necessity of strong governance and appropriate oversight The Deposed “King” of Queens Library NPQ [Ed. This article was written by NEO Senior Counsel Erin Bradrick.]
• Nonprofit Law: Report urges New York’s nonprofit board members to manage their organizations more effectively via @PoliticoNY http://politi.co/251yqUt [Ed. The FEGS collapse provides important lessons and implications for the broader nonprofit sector.]
• Nonprofit Quarterly: The three processes of strategy, succession & governance are linked in ways that often create these dilemmas: NPQ
• Haas, Jr. Fund: Article via @forbes #Philanthropy Takes A Stand In Social Movements, featuring @EvanWolfson http://ow.ly/ZDRUm http://ow.ly/i/hGsW7
• Philanthropy: Opinion: A decade in, Twitter is the real-time pulse of nonprofit advocacy http://bit.ly/1PpQ60C
• Nonprofit Issues: Do you consider it a conflict of interest for the executive director to also serve on the board? Nonprofit Issues
• Foundation Center – SF: What are the risks and rewards of crowdfunding your #nonprofit? We’ve got the breakdown here —> http://ow.ly/ZDUnT
• Gene: Great resource: Slide deck from @DWTLaw Nonprofits in the Digital Age – #crowdfunding Davis Wright Tremaine
• Gene: Great resource: Slide deck from @DWTLaw A Privacy and Cybersecurity Primer for Nonprofits Davis Wright Tremaine
• OpenIDEO: An intriguing perspective: how “Crowdfunding for the Public Good Is Evil” http://ideo.to/ZQIft5 [Ed. The article explores the possibility of crowdfunding being used as an excuse not to deliver basic services.]