Board

Transitioning to paperless board and committee meetings can have a big impact by showing your organization is forward-focused as you embrace technology and seek to operate in a sustainable manner.

In a research first, the Nonprofit Research Collaborative (NRC) finds a direct association between active fundraising by nonprofit board members and the organization meeting its fundraising goals.

Nonprofit board members continue to fall short in meeting the fundraising expectations of their chief executives, a new survey has found.

The Nonprofit Governance Index, conducted every two to three years by BoardSource, a nonprofit group that works to strengthen boards, this year asked more than 1,300 chief executives about their trustees’ performance, policies and involvement in fundraising and other issues.

At the 2012 Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference last month, three fundraising professionals shared essential leadership skills every major gifts team should have.

If nonprofits are going to truly break free from the vicious fundraising cycle, they must find the courage to tell funders how it really is. And since board members are a nonprofit’s closest supporters and (I hope) donors, you need to stop telling them these lies as well.

In this archived episode of his Nonprofit Coach radio show, Ted Hart speaks with Dottie Schindlinger about enhancing nonprofit board leadership.

Here are nine ways board members can raise money without fundraising in the traditional sense.

There are many things that board members can do to raise significantly more money for their organization, in a much more effective way. Here are seven to get you started.

In part one of our three-part series of successful fundraising case studies from the past year, we focus on health-oriented organizations CaringBridge and HealthConnect One.

Does the live free or die philosophy of the New Hampshire Legislature pertain only to organizations making a profit? That's what officials at many of the state's nonprofit organizations are beginning to wonder after the Senate passed a bill mandating that state charitable organizations send at least one board member to a training session with a heavy focus on fiscal management and ethics.

The bill requires that one board member go through the training every other year, with penalties to be named later by the charitable trusts unit of the state Justice Department.