Discover the Journey of Lalé Welsh: Celebrating the Freedom to write

Nonprofits are built on trust.

They exist to serve missions larger than any one person — feeding the hungry, advancing the arts, funding medical research, protecting communities.

Yet inside boardrooms across the nonprofit world, a quiet transformation often takes place.

Board members begin protecting their reputations instead of the mission. Questions become uncomfortable. Loyalty replaces oversight. And somewhere along the way someone inevitably says the phrase that reveals everything:

“This organization is my baby.”

But nonprofits are not anyone’s baby.

They do not belong to founders, donors, board members, or executive directors. They belong to something far less personal — the public trust.

It’s Not Your Baby is an inside look at the strange, often unspoken dynamics of nonprofit governance. Through real stories, sharp observation, and a touch of humor, the book explores why well-meaning boards sometimes lose their way — and what it takes to bring them back to the mission they were meant to serve.