Leading the Board

Nonprofit executives and board chairs may get frustrated with their board members’ performance. Here are six ideas to see improvement.

Board meetings usually follow a stringent order, but here’s an approach that fits organizational needs and generates board enthusiasm.

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.