Leadership and Management
Dive deep into leadership development and successful nonprofit management. These articles center around subjects such as: team empowerment, strategic planning, and ways to best leverage your nonprofit’s resources.
Focus on the Destination, Not the Route (Budget)!
Jeanne Bell argues it’s time to stop looking at budgets and pay attention instead to projections and financial goals.
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.
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.
Survival Strategies for the Arts
John Killacky explores how the arts can survive and thrive — even as civil society changes, and health and human service needs rise.
Fundraising Confessions of a Former Camp Fire Girl
In most nonprofits, board members need to fundraise to provide for the financial sustainability of their organizations. But how?
Finance Fear Factor Ratios
Watching indicators of financial health like performance-to-budget or reserve size are important, but may not say if you need to worry now.
Too Many Nonprofits? Yes! Clueless in Seattle
Elizabeth Heath shares her thinking about the impact of the economic challenges of today on the nonprofit sector.
Tracking Volunteer Time to Boost Your Bottom Line: A Complete Accounting Guide
CPA Dennis Walsh of North Carolina explains why and how to include volunteer time in your nonprofit’s budgets and financials.
A Devil’s Advocate on the Board?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if nonprofit boards could foresee the obstacles ahead — in time to make the right decisions?