Jan Masaoka
Posts by Jan Masaoka:
Managing Your Nonprofit’s Rating
Advice to nonprofits on managing their ratings, and commentary on the impact of the raters as a whole.
Extreme Board Makeover
Executive directors often say that their boards need training. The most effective way to change a board is to change the people on it.
Nonprofits: How to Have a Board Meeting By Telephone
In most states, it is legal to have board meetings by telephone if everyone can hear one another at the same time.
Getting to 100% Board Giving
Having 100% of board members make personal donations is a cliché. But, if you have this requirement, make it as easy as possible.
Charity Rater Reviews: Charting the Bad and the Bad
A look at six charity raters, who they rate, and the criteria they use to rate them.
How to Keep the Board Under Your Thumb
Nonprofit executive directors often want boards to have lively discussions followed by votes that agree with the executive director.
The Founding Fathers Write a Grant Proposal
The challenges of writing a grant proposal and getting funded evidently go back to colonial times.
Ten Biggest Mistakes Boards and Executives Make
“To err is human,” and as we all ruefully know, nonprofit board members and executive directors are typically human.
Conflict of Interest… or Conflict of Loyalty?
Often, conflicts of interest in nonprofits do not involve personal financial gain, but conflict of loyalty.
Deconstructing Nonprofit Sustainability
Maybe in some mythic past it was possible to think first about strategic impact goals, and then about how to raise the money. But today we know better: you can’t talk about what you’re going to do without talking about how to get the money.