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Board Horror Stories: How to Reduce Board Resignations
When nonprofit board members feel dissatisfied, they often resign. They’re less likely to do that when there is communication about common objectives. There’s less wasted time and resources when expectations are met.
The Year of Three Executive Directors:
Important Lessons for Board ManagementEmbarking on a journey as a board member of a nonprofit can often feel like steering a ship in stormy seas. In this candid account, the author reveals their personal trials and triumphs, spotlighting invaluable lessons that every board member can benefit from.
Data Visualization: User-Centered Design
Our partner organization, Your Part-Time Controller, offers helpful advice on how U/X and user-centered design methods can better communicate visual stories in a way that advances the mission of your organization. How to use data visualizations …
I Followed A Founder: A First-Person Nonprofit Tale
Too often the focus on nonprofit executive transitions is about the departing executive. We’re in the middle of interviewing 58 executives who followed founders or long-time leaders. Here’s just one of their stories; we’ll call her “Amanda”: The …
Firing My Friend, the Founder
A board member shares a story about the difficult process of firing a nonprofit founder when money just wasn’t coming in.
The Board Just Fired Me …and I’m the Founder!
A nonprofit founder provides a first person account of what it’s like being by fired by a board she put together.
The Secret to a High Impact Annual Report
This year, rather than slave and anguish over the parts almost no one will read anyway, try a new approach to annual reports.
What Should Nonprofit Boards Know About Insurance Brokers?
Considering how insurance costs typically constitute a sizable chunk of a nonprofit budget, this significant cost is remarkably un-examined. A key part to getting the lowest costs, the best coverage, and the best service is getting the right insurance broker. But what exactly is an insurance broker and what do they do? What should we look for in a broker? How do we find a good one?
In Search of Unicorns: Finding & Hiring Outside Grantwriters Part 2
How to find grantwriters, select them, how much to pay them and what kinds of payment arrangements to choose.
Unicorns Found: Meet Two Grantwriters
In Part 1 of Blue Avocado’s series on hiring grantwriters, we compared grantwriters to unicorns: elusive, seldom-seen miraculous creatures, possibly mythical. In researching this article we reached out to dozens of grantwriters. Here you have a chance …
