Association or Organization: What Is the Difference?
How can you know whether a group that gets together regularly should be called an association or organization? While people commonly use the terms interchangeably, there are distinct differences…
Top 12 Security Considerations for Your Volunteer Board
As a volunteer 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.…
Risk Management Analysis: How Volunteer Boards Can Spot Red Flags
With over 1.5 million nonprofits to choose from, donors have an abundance of organizations they can choose to support. Considering that, it stands to reason that donors have a…
How To Use Governance Technology to Protect Nonprofit Board Members Against Cyberattacks
Cyberattacks are here to stay and ransomware demands to organizations are unfortunately skyrocketing. Nonprofit boards need to know the essentials of how to protect data and their board members against…
Fiduciary responsibility: A complete guide with examples
A fiduciary responsibility is an obligation that prevents one party from acting in their own interest rather than in the interest of the organization. For nonprofits, this ethical commitment…
Healthcare Board Portal
BoardEffect, a Diligent company, was designed for the work of efficient and collaborative boards to enable effective leaders. Healthcare executives and trustees have long relied on BoardEffect to improve board…
Conducting an Organizational Risk Assessment for Nonprofits
As a board member, you play a vital role as a steward of your nonprofit’s mission and its funds. Risk management is an essential responsibility for all nonprofit boards…
Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Everything Boards Need to Know
It seems that with every day that goes by we're hearing more and more about issues in the media related to cybersecurity—particularly cybersecurity issues in healthcare. Unfortunately, much of…
Board meeting minutes 101: Free template and examples included
As commonplace as it is for board secretaries to take nonprofit board meeting minutes, it may surprise you that boards of directors are not legally required to take minutes…
The necessity of secure file sharing for boards of community banks
Board members of community banks and credit unions regularly handle highly confidential information. The relationships that financial institutions have with their community are very important, and they can be a…
