Board Orientation Best Practices
Some board members attend their first board meeting knowing pretty much what to expect. Even experienced board directors benefit by having the opportunity to attend a well-prepared, well-organized board orientation…
Compliance Best Practices for Boards of Healthcare Institutions
Quality hospital and patient safety is an important priority in our nation. Often, we learn much from investigating the results of adverse events and health crises. Obviously, it’s better to…
Hospital Board Governance Best Practices
Considering the current state of health care transformation, hospitals and health care services are perhaps one of the most rapidly evolving industries in the country. It’s prudent to consider hospital…
Nonprofit Investment Committee Best Practices
Nonprofits are required to use their funds to support their charities. That doesn’t mean that they’re not allowed to invest funds to help their money grow. While most of the…
Best Practices for a Nonprofit Governance Committee
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…
Best Practices for Nonprofit Board Term Limits
Nonprofit organizations serve such a wide variety of purposes that the federal government felt it was best to give them some flexibility to be able to govern themselves. There are…
Best Practices for Taking Nonprofit Board Meeting Minutes
Board meeting minutes are standard protocol for board director meetings and they serve a variety of purposes. Most often, meeting minutes serve internal purposes, such as recordkeeping and institutional memory,…
Best Practices for Nonprofit Advisory Boards
While there is a clear definition and set of practices for corporate and nonprofit boards, the practices for an advisory board are quite subjective. The function of an advisory board…
Nonprofit Governance Best Practices
The basic principles of good governance haven’t changed much, if at all, in recent decades. Nonprofit boards must remain loyal to the organization’s mission and vision. It’s necessary for nonprofit…
Best Practices for a Nonprofit Board Agenda
An agenda is the road map for board members to follow during meetings. In addition to being a plan for the current meeting, the agenda is also a follow-up to…
