Category: Board Development
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes 2025
October 31, 2025 For the last few years (with one exception), I’ve taken time to compile some of the scariest nonprofit quotes I’ve heard in the last year and sharing…
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A Donor Prospect Identification Exercise
Don’t just take your board’s word for it when they say they don’t know potential major donors. Put them through an exercise.
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What makes a high functioning board?
What are the attributes of a highly functioning board of directors?
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Preparing for a Likely Recession
Here are seven lessons to take into account as we head towards a likely recession in 2025.
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14 Tips for Board Minutes
Here are 14 practical tips for how to create board minutes for your nonprofit.
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes 2024
Welcome to the 3rd not-quite annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original edition in 2021 as Halloween approached and a follow-up in 2022. After a one-year hiatus,…
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Why volunteers before how volunteers
Advocacy, Board Development, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Uncategorized, VolunteersWith a few exceptions, the vast majority of nonprofits with which I’ve worked have viewed volunteers as both an important resource and strategy. Almost always, they immediately get to the…
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Nonprofit dashboards 101
Have you heard about nonprofit dashboards? If not, here’s a quick overview of what they are, why they’re valuable, and how you might create one.
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On the value of one-on-ones
Rather than being inefficient, one-on-one meetings are a necessity to build personal relationships and to ask organizational supporters to take on real leadership, whether via fundraising or otherwise.
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Tools for an Executive to Stay Focused
Quite a few times I’ve encountered Executive Directors who come across as very competent. Their writing is cogent. Documents they produce are always well-formatted. They are well-spoken in person, laying…