There’s enough competition in the startup space that new companies need to pull out all the stops to be successful. Great ideas and passion will only take your startup so far. Your founders and board members won’t always have the…
As a not-for-profit board director, you’re highly dedicated and invested in your cause. In a perfect world, all the money you raise would go toward your programs and activities. The reality is that some percentage of your money has to…
Not-for-profit organisations provide essential public services. Board members of not-for-profits need a roadmap to help them meet the needs of their communities by fulfilling their mission and stated purpose. The board’s role in developing a strategic plan is to set…
When you serve on a not-for-profit board, you’re invested in the cause and naturally, you want to give your best performance to ensure your not-for-profit thrives. Best practices for governance suggest that boards, including not-for-profit boards, should do not-for-profit board…
If the board president or executive director of your not-for-profit organisation resigned tomorrow, what’s the first thing would your board do? If your answer is, “I don’t know,” it’s time to get busy working on not-for-profit succession planning. Not-for-profit boards…
It’s taken the general public some time to get used to various document formats. It’s taken even more time, as well as a few serious and publicly embarrassing mishaps, for most people to give credence to the security risks of file-sharing. In…
It may be tempting for boards to skip board meetings and put board business on hold during times when it’s impractical or improbable for boards to meet in person. The reality is that it may be even more important to…
Efficiency is a key component of not-for-profit board meetings. Donors and constituents expect not-for-profits to organise themselves well and to do their work as efficiently as possible. Most not-for-profit board directors also consider efficiency to be a key component of…
Document sharing apps are just one of the many digital tools that effective boards need to manage their organisations in the most efficient, secure way. Your board isn’t alone in encountering various circumstances that call your attention to the need…
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