I have served on the board of Craigslist Foundation for two years and at our recent December meeting I was honored to be selected by my colleagues as Chairman.

I will be joined by Jose Cisneros, the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, as our board’s very able Treasurer, and Kathy Bella, Principal of the Bella Group and expert on just about everything related to nonprofit causes, as Secretary. We also welcome a new board member this year, Rich Moran, an Executive in Residence at Venrock, a venture capital firm in Palo Alto.

Under the outstanding leadership of Lynn Luckow, our President and CEO, and aided by the Craigslist Foundation’s small but energetic staff, we hope to do great things in the coming year.

So save the date for the next Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp on August 14, 2010 at the University of California campus in  Berkeley, CA.   I look forward to seeing you there!

Our new research initiative NonprofitNext and recently published monograph Convergence: How Five Trends Will Reshape the Social Sector has inspired a lot of talk about how to prepare for a future.

We are clear that the trends we study will have a profound impact on the sector’s work but we don’t know how they will evolve, interact, and respond to other economic, social and political developments. What can a thoughtful leader do in this constantly changing landscape?

One thing is certain: traditional strategic planning with its 3-5 year timeframe is not up to muster in this dynamic environment. That’s why we created Real-Time Strategic Planning to create an atmosphere where futurists can flourish.