Relevance is a common topic of conversation. How important is it to a nonprofit? [...]
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What is the positive improvement promised by your mission statement? Does the community want the positive improvement you are promising? [...] In our modern times, innovation is king. However, some innovations are a distraction. How do you decide when to adopt something new? [...] The best boards are engaged, deliberative, and forward-looking. Here are ideas to help your board become all that you want it to be. [...] One of the reasons to have a board is to have a group of people who are going to carefully deliberate over important issues. What issues are important enough to require board attention? Let us refer to the important issues as “significant transactions”. [...] Every nonprofit board should focus on growth. Not every organization needs to grow. Do you know the difference? [...] Even the best run organizations experience tough going from time to time. How a nonprofit responds to the tough times determines how it exits the difficulty. [...] If you want your nonprofit to be more sustainable, what are the major areas you should focus on to create a more sustainable organization? [...] It is wrong for a nonprofit board to micromanage. A board must monitor the nonprofit’s activity. Where is the balance? [...] It is generally accepted that the performance of a group depends heavily on the skills of its members. Small nonprofits need a high-performance board but often find it hard to recruit the highly skilled. [...] |
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