As your nonprofit grows, your board must grow with it. Governance refinement planning helps ensure your board develops the structure, leadership and strategy to guide your organization from startup to maturity.
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Strategic Planning Themes: A Look Back at the Past Few Years
What are strategic planning themes? How could I identify them? How might they evolve year-to-year? Understanding themes and trends offers numerous benefits to you as a leader since they can help inform decisions and strategies.
Read MoreHow to Create Excellence Through Your High-Impact Board: A Further Examination
All nonprofit professionals should aspire to work with a high-quality, high-impact board of directors. The demands on organizations in today’s world place increasing pressure on quality boards to help leadership in a complex society.
Read MoreHow to Create Excellence Through Your High-Impact Board
As a nonprofit pro, if you are serious about taking your board to a higher level, start by looking at best-of-class boards. Find out what elements separate the operations of best boards from your board. Recruit potential members well based upon organizational needs and what skills are needed in certain board openings.
Read MoreBuilding a Dynamic Nonprofit Board: A Further Examination
In this article, we continue the review of a board’s function, examine elements of weak boards to avoid, determine ways to recruit and retain great board members, plus understand the role of organizational mission.
Read MoreAttributes of Effective Advisory Board Members
Nonprofits need effective advisory boards. Many of these organizations have limited staff and volunteers, and need the broad expertise that an advisory board can bring to the table. I have worked with many advisory boards and found that one size does not fit all.
Read MoreNonprofit Board Assessment Questions You Need to Ask
Nonprofits, like society, have experienced a lot this year. Unfortunately, if you pay even a little bit of attention to the social media threads, you see that some nonprofits have cut workers’ hours or even jobs.
Read MoreWhat Happens When Your Board Member Gets Sick?
Every day, my team and I have the chance to speak to many nonprofit leaders. And there’s one thing that we’ve realized during this most uncertain of years. There’s been much disruption and chaos.
Read MoreA Nonprofit Executive’s Advice to Prospective Board Members
The nonprofit world continues to need volunteer board members who are diverse and are willing to step up and promote society. Each board must have variety, be committed to having effective meetings and be goal-oriented.
Read MoreEliminate ‘Boring’ Board Meetings for Good
You need to work with board leadership to identify, recruit, orient and train new board members. If you have excited and motivated board members, they will want to attend board meetings and participate in board meetings.
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