Your board’s commitment to creating a board diversity policy is such an important task that you’ll want to get it right. A sample board diversity policy or template can help you do that. A template for a board diversity policy…
The demographics of nonprofit boards tend to follow the trends of corporate boards. In recent years, corporate boards are recruiting more women for their boards and they’re having good success. There’s also a move to recruit different ethnicities to boards…
Nonprofit organizations provide essential public services. Board members of nonprofits 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 strategy plan is to set…
Nonprofit boards operate largely under the same rules. The rules for nonprofit board committees were intentionally designed to be broad to accommodate the wide variety of sizes and purposes of nonprofit organizations. A nonprofit’s bylaws describe the types of standing…
Document sharing apps are just one of the many digital tools that effective boards need to manage their organizations in the most efficient, secure way. Your board isn’t alone in encountering various circumstances that call your attention to the need…
People and passion draw people to serve on a board. Nonprofit board of director best practices will help them fulfill that role well. As prepared as most board members believe they are, their first board meeting can be a rude…
In recent months, virtual meetings have become a necessity for organizations of every type because of COVID-19. If virtual meetings are new for your organization, you’re probably learning some of the nuances that make virtual meetings different from in-person meetings.…
Nonprofit board directors provide valuable services for their communities. It’s exciting to join a nonprofit board of directors and be part of the action. New nonprofit board directors quickly learn that accepting a seat on the board comes with huge…
With the onset of the pandemic, a remote working environment has become a necessity for nonprofit organizations of every type and size, as well as for businesses. Nonprofits need to be equally concerned about the safety and well-being of their…
If the board president or executive director of your nonprofit organization 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 nonprofit succession planning. Nonprofit boards…
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