After many years of working in the trenches of the nonprofit sector, in June of last year something extraordinary happened to me. It was as if I was grabbed by the collar and lifted up to a high mountain, where for the first time, I got to see all the nonprofit “trenches” people work in.  So here let me speak plainly about some of the dirty little secrets about many nonprofit Boards and how they govern – they often do it badly and in some cases they do not govern at all.