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Tag: Board development

From Startup to Mature: How to Guide Your Nonprofit Board’s Growth

October 28, 2025 Tracy Vanderneck

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

November 22, 2022 Eric Ryan

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.

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How to Create Excellence Through Your High-Impact Board: A Further Examination

April 30, 2021 Duke Haddad, Ed.D.

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. 

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How to Create Excellence Through Your High-Impact Board

April 23, 2021 Duke Haddad, Ed.D.
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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.

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Building a Dynamic Nonprofit Board: A Further Examination

April 16, 2021 Duke Haddad, Ed.D.

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.

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Attributes of Effective Advisory Board Members

January 29, 2021 Duke Haddad, Ed.D.

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.

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Nonprofit Board Assessment Questions You Need to Ask

November 4, 2020 Wayne Elsey

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.

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What Happens When Your Board Member Gets Sick?

September 16, 2020 Wayne Elsey

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.

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A Nonprofit Executive’s Advice to Prospective Board Members

March 6, 2020 Duke Haddad, Ed.D.

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.

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Eliminate ‘Boring’ Board Meetings for Good

February 7, 2020 Duke Haddad, Ed.D.
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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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