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Stuck Between a Financial Crisis Wrought by the Founder and a Hard Place
A deputy director describes the crisis at an organization where the founding executive director left, and how the organization almost closed.
The Power of Collaborative Fundraising
Learn about tangible benefits from collaborative fundraising and the five simple steps to ensure your collaboration goes as well as possible.
Strategic Planning: Failures and Alternatives
When recessions happen, many nonprofits can’t move forward on strategic plans. Jan Masaoka explores what nonprofits can do instead.
Stance: The ED’s Role and Attitude in Strategic Planning
An overlooked but crucial element in strategic planning is the attitude or stance that the executive director takes to the process.
Abolish Board Committees?
You may find that task forces with a specific purpose may provide better results than ongoing low-performing board committees.
Nonprofits: How to Survive an IRS Audit
The true life story of an environmental organization’s audit, how they survived, and their tips for the rest of us.
Conflict of Interest… or Conflict of Loyalty?
Often, conflicts of interest in nonprofits do not involve personal financial gain, but conflict of loyalty.
A Discussion of The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership– Live Q&A
Jim Taylor of BoardSource shares an overview and description of “The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership” – a new board leadership mindset based on four fundamental principles.
Nonprofit Embezzlement: More Common and More Preventable Than You Think
Embezzlement is especially painful for community nonprofits. Here are the most common types of nonprofit embezzlement and how you can deal with them.
How to Staff and Support a Committee
Nonprofit managers should know how to support a committee of volunteers: An Advisory Committee, a Board Finance Committee, or a coalition.
If You Give a Board Treasurer A Cookie…
Blue Avocado columnist Vu Le inspires us again with his ideas for nonprofit-themed children’s books. We should all be writing some!
Successfully Navigating an Executive Director Transition
How do you successfully transition from one Executive Director to another? This first person account highlights how to do it right.
Don’t Let Internal Controls Slip at Your Nonprofit Organization!
Internal controls are more important than ever to have in place and operating effectively in order to prevent wrongdoing and malfeasance.
Role of the Nonprofit CFO in Executive Management: The Watchdog Responsibility
The board expects the Executive Director (ED) and CFO to work in partnership to further the mission, but most boards also expect the CFO to perform a “watchdog” function. If the ED is the engine of the bus, the CFO is the insurance, the maintenance, and yes, sometimes the brakes.
Growing the Roots of Consensus in Nonprofit Governance
Why nonprofits that embrace a consensus-based decision model can enhance services, adapt to change, and make a lasting impact.
Popular and Trending Articles
Discover the latest trends and most popular article related to running a successful nonprofit including best practices, and innovative strategies to empower your nonprofit’s mission and drive positive change.
Nonprofit Rebranding Strategies: Five Steps to Achieving a Successful Nonprofit Rebrand
Nonprofit rebrands are tricky. Nonprofit rebranding strategies to help provide you with a roadmap to your own successful transition.
Through the Valley of the Shadow of Failure
Cate Steane shares her experience guiding her nonprofit through a harrowing organizational crisis and living to tell about it.
Closing Down the Right Way
Blue Avocado shares steps for how a nonprofit organization can shut down its operations and ride into the sunset gracefully.
The Best Way to Raise Money? Choose a Revenue Strategy
What’s the best way to raise money for a nonprofit? Start by figuring out who are the best potential supporters of our work and why.