Nonprofit executives and board chairs may get frustrated with their board members’ performance. Here are six ideas to see improvement.
Mike Burns
Board meetings usually follow a stringent order, but here’s an approach that fits organizational needs and generates board enthusiasm.
An annual board assessment can help a board identify ways to fulfill fiduciary duties. Here’s how to make this process a success.
Board chairs can often feel like it is just them running the show. Here are some approaches to make sure the board chair is supported.
Here are three tips to produce a better outcome after rejecting a board member — for both the rejected candidate and the nonprofit.
As boards become more diverse, ensuring that members are fully and meaningfully welcomed, oriented and engaged should become a bigger priority for nonprofit boards, too. Here are seven common-sense suggestions to improve your board’s engagement and inclusion efforts.
The relationship between a nonprofit board and the CEO/executive director is frequently referred to as a partnership. Most governance literature cites that the board and executive partnership is a goal where there is a clear distinction between the roles and a relationship that is equal and balanced.
Boards may improve their understanding of and effectiveness as a body by developing their own board totem pole process.
Numbers are a dominant question when it comes to designing an effective board. This list highlights the challenges that come to mind.
Throughout the nonprofit sector, there is significant activity around building a board that is inclusive and reflects the constituency of each nonprofit. The end result: more effective services. But recruitment is just the first step in achieving these outcomes. One tool that can help: The Theory of Change.
A new executive, and hopefully every nonprofit employee, often consumes a large part of their first day of employment in the human resources office being onboarded to the proper processes and rules of the organization. But what if, for CEOs in particular, a bit more ritual was added?
While nonprofit board management is complicated, some of the complications can be addressed through basic common sense. Here are a number of common sense and tested suggestions that may reduce at least some of the complications that can affect achieving nonprofit board success.
Did you know that it is possible to have a nonprofit board committee that has more power and authority than the full board? No, I’m not making this up. This is most often in the form of a standing executive committee described in the by-laws.
During the meeting — and this may be the only activity that happens at the meeting — there will be reports. Sometimes it feels like one report after another with an occasional question thrown-in and some member moving, and then the board votes to accept the report. And then, the meeting is over. Is this what you really signed up for?
Are board members' expectations fair and realistic about what is involved with the board treasurer job and who should take on this role? Here are four of the most commonly shared myths about nonprofit board treasurers.
