College-aged students have many different types of information to protect. As adults, they have the right to privacy for their educational, medical and personal information. Laws to protect students have many exceptions and limitations, which makes them very confusing. Boards…
Due to the nature of nonprofit board service, people who fill board seats of nonprofit organizations were never intended to be permanent fixtures. With every person who joins or leaves the board, board dynamics are sure to change — sometimes…
It seems that every year regulatory bodies are taking stronger actions to protect shareholders. With every new development in the corporate world, nonprofits also need to take a look at how new legislation will have an effect on their operations.…
Nonprofit boards are not as heavily regulated as public companies; however, they have many of the same expectations for governance as public and private corporations. Moving from manual board management to an electronic board portal streamlines many of the board…
Private, government and nonprofit organizations typically aren’t required to perform regular board evaluations; however, they have much to benefit by doing them anyway. Most boards find it helpful to perform board and individual board director self-evaluations at least annually. Some…
Hospital board directors and trustees have historically served their duties without compensation. Recently, a few of the larger consolidated hospitals have broken the mold and started offering compensation to their board directors. The movement toward compensating hospital board directors is…
Private and nonprofit boards of directors face many of the same challenges of refreshing their boards as publicly traded companies. Many other issues drive the unique challenges of board refreshment that non-public entities face on an ongoing basis. The type…
Many things differentiate nonprofit organizations from one another. If you’ve seen one nonprofit organization, you’ve seen one nonprofit organization. Some of them are startups, and many of them have been around for decades. Each nonprofit organization has a flavor and…
Every nonprofit organization establishes roots. Some organizations thrive and live on. Others fail and are short-lived. When there is passion for a cause or an issue, nonprofit organizations can have major positive impact on people and the communities in which…
The rising costs of higher education are leading today’s young adults more in the direction of nonprofit or public colleges as one of the least costly alternative ways of attaining a higher education. As the governing body of educational institutions…
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