Board Management
A Board of Directors is your compass for steering your nonprofit towards excellence and successful management of your board is key for sustainable growth.
Explore the strategies and tactics that can transform your board into a dynamic and cohesive team, ready to tackle the challenges and opportunities of the nonprofit world.
Should Board Members Be Required to Give?
Are board giving requirements a best practice or a bad idea? Blue Avocado reports on trends and explore the real questions.
What to Do with Board Members Who Don’t Do Anything
In this Board Cafe column, look at short-term and long-term strategies for the board members known as deadwood or worse.
Ten Quick Ways to Invigorate Board Meetings
Board members invest a lot of time and energy at board meetings. A few small changes can often make that investment pay off in important ways.
Critical Path for the Board
A powerful approach to determining your board’s agenda and work for the year.
A Nonprofit Dashboard and Signal Light for Boards
A nonprofit dashboard gives important information to decision-makers such as executives and boards in a quick-read way.
Six of Our Board Members Are in Prison
How to involve board members in decision-making, staff mentoring of staff, and fundraising — even when they’re in unexpected circumstances.
Alligators in the Boardroom and Urban Legends About Nonprofits
Urban myths and legends gain a measure of credibility just by their frequent telling and longevity — and nonprofits aren’t immune.
Boards Should Only Have Three Committees!
Consultant David La Piana discusses how boards tend to be frustrated with their committees when they don’t know how to organize them.
What Are the Board’s Responsibilities for Volunteers?
A board of directors proactively supporting volunteer involvement can dramatically increases its potential achievement level.
What’s the Point of a Nonprofit Board, Anyway?
Here we take an unconventional look at three dimensions of why boards exist: Legal reasons, mission reasons, and political reasons.