Without an established, designated process for recruiting nonprofit board directors, many nonprofits take a casual, disorganized approach to board director recruitment. The final result of their efforts often yields an ill-composed board filled with any warm bodies who are willing…
Today’s higher education arena presents many challenges, risks, and opportunities in a rapidly changing environment. While the face of higher education changes, college boards must face the facts that it’s also time for college leadership demographics to change as well.…
Individuals and corporations regularly make many choices about how they spend and allocate their money. A budget is a plan for how the organization wants to spend its money. In making decisions about allocating funds, nonprofit board members must take…
Starting a nonprofit organization is an exciting and rewarding venture. The beginning phase is the most important phase of development. It pays for founders to take a detailed and well-planned approach to forming a nonprofit organization. Initially, forming a nonprofit…
Policies and practices are important to the structure of nonprofit organizations. Formal policies and practices define expectations for board members, staff and volunteers to prevent disagreements, alleviate confusion and prevent liability issues. In addition, written policies and practices form the…
Nonprofit board fundraising best practices are all about the people, the passion and the purpose. Nonprofit organizations must have the finances to fulfill the stated purpose of their mission. Fundraising doesn’t always come easy, especially when nonprofits don’t have a…
In the excitement of fundraising, getting donor commitments and hosting events, nonprofit boards may overlook an issue that’s vital to the organization’s sustainability — risk management. Risk management is a proactive activity when it’s done well. Too often, boards unwittingly…
The media has generated a fair amount of negative publicity about the boards of directors of nonprofit organizations and corporations because of poor or weak governance. The unsavory attention has motivated many nonprofit boards to re-evaluate their governance models with…
Our society benefits greatly from for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Their purposes are different, which means that each needs to have a different governance structure in order to grow and thrive. The strength of the governance structure, along with the quality…
Board directors have millions of apps to choose from regardless of which electronic device they choose to use at any given time. Electronic apps have various levels of built-in security features. This fact presents an issue that concerns nonprofit board…
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