OK. Got your message from Friday’s Agitator post that it’s not only about the stupidity of fundraisers. We simply have to begin to change things at the top.

With or without T-shirts, here’s what has to happen.

If the problem is CEOs and top management who don’t listen or care, then let’s call them out for the disasters they cause. As the saying goes, “sunlight is the best disinfectant”.

So, here’s what I propose: The Agitator will begin to publicly publish the ‘Best’ and ‘Worst’ nonprofit CEOs and boards as seen by fundraisers.

We’ll routinely send these findings to The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Association of Governing Boards and the American Management Association. Kind of like a Dow-Jones Index of ‘Stupid’ or ‘Smart’.

Don’t worry about being fired. You can submit your candidates for ‘best’ or ‘worst’ along with whatever explanation and detail you wish — anonymously. We’ll protect the confidentiality.

BUT … you also have to send us the email address of the CEO and chair of the board so we can send our analysis directly to them. Doesn’t do any good if we just keep this among the downtrodden.

Imagine the effect on meaningful change when names are named and shortcomings are identified. We’ll deal with any legal repercussions.

Just let us know why the CEO or Board are so pathetic, incompetent, stupid — or even brilliant — when it comes to understanding fundraising and we’ll take it from there.

Once we have their email addresses we’ll reach out and interview them and then write ‘em up.

Here’s how it will go when you tell us how and why they’re a loser (we’ll have a winner version too):

“Dear Chairperson,

Your CEO has been nominated from a group of 6,000 fundraisers as among the most clueless and ineffective CEOs alive when it comes to fundraising. Are you aware of this?

If not, please download our summary of leadership losers.

There’s reason to believe the board of XXX is also incompetent in this regard. We will rate boards of directors in the coming month, including yours.

Frankly we’re not doing this to be mean or vindictive or even sensational. The reason is that clueless leadership leads to clueless fundraising. And that’s a shame.

Before we make this information public we sure would welcome the opportunity to interview you and find out why you tolerate this.

If you’d be kind enough to send us your phone number and a good time to talk, I’ll call you.

Thank you.

Roger Craver, Co-Editor
The Agitator

Roger@TheAgitator.net”

OK. If you Agitators are really serious about dealing with the losers on boards and the executive suite then start the emails flowing.

Roger

P.S. You don’t have to work for these turkeys or winners. Just send me their email addresses and the reasons you think I should interview them and I’ll take it from there.

Further, believe me, this is important. Clueless CEOs are one of the Great Barriers to Growth. And, sadly, they ain’t too popular among Agitator readers: 20% of our readers think CEOs are “clueless” and 24% say the CEO treats them like “the gardener”.

PPS: You can nominate anyone you wish, but frankly I’m most interested in the CEOs of BIG national organizations, ‘cause the damage of their ineffectiveness is huge and the public needs to know.