Category: Board Development
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Board members in management roles – updated
Originally published in August 2022, this edition of the post expands upon the suggestions I offered in August. A challenge unstaffed nonprofits face is that board members necessarily take on…
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Scary Nonprofit Quotes of 2022
Welcome to the 2nd annual edition of Scary Nonprofit Quotes. I authored the original Scary Quotes edition in 2021 as Halloween approached, documenting examples of some of the scariest things…
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Board members in management roles
A challenge unstaffed nonprofits face is that board members necessarily take on roles that are not board governance. These other roles are hard to categorize with a singular term. They…
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Slowing down to speed up
A few years back, somebody used the phrase “slow down to speed up†in my presence and it really resonated. Doing some quick google searches, I found dozens of articles…
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Thankful nonprofit quotes
About My Work, Board Development, Consulting, Fundraising, Human Resources, Leadership, Strategic Planning, VolunteersLast month, in the spirit of Halloween, I shared the scariest things I’ve heard uttered by nonprofit leaders. As a counterpoint, this month I offer up some “thankful†comments about…
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Scary nonprofit quotes
In honor of Halloween 2021, here are the the scariest things I’ve heard from nonprofit leaders. These are paraphrases as I wasn’t writing them down at the time. If you…
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Effective board governance in a nutshell
Not every one of my client engagements involves work with a board of directors, but enough do that I can safely say I’ve worked with a lot of boards and…
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Strategic Planning and the board-ED relationship
I recently wrote an article for Blue Avocado on the board-Executive Director relationship. When I talk to nonprofit leaders about strategic planning, they often voice some of the obvious benefits…
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Overcoming fear
For many of those responsible for securing major gifts for their organization, it’s one thing to know in theory what should take place when meeting with a donor. It’s another…
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The board and nonprofit branding
A friend serving on the board of a local nonprofit recently asked me: ” I have a question about the process of rebranding for a nonprofit. Is it your experience…