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Are you considering joining a nonprofit board? Does your day job leave you feeling like you want to give back in another way? If so, lending your professional expertise to a charitable [...]

“More than 50% of board members do not believe their fellow members are very experienced or engaged in their work.” -Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2014 Survey of 924 Nonprofit Directors [...]

Questioning the Status Quo It is important that a nonprofit organization regularly evaluate its mission if it wishes to achieve its goals. Likewise, it must be ready to modify its mission in [...]

It’s not uncommon for nonprofit organizations to be unprepared in the case of a leadership transition. This can be particularly challenging for organizations where the founder is serving in the [...]

Is your organization “effective”?  How do you know?  Do you measure the impact you have as an organization; both from an impact on the people you serve as well as the community at large?  How is [...]

Whether you are a nonprofit leader or serve on a nonprofit board, we would be interested in your reaction to the statistics below related to board engagement.  According to survey by Stanford [...]

Setting aside time to plan, whether it be for strategic planning, fundraising or marketing (outreach), is often extremely difficult for nonprofit organizations. And it’s easy to understand why. [...]

Is managing your board of directors an ongoing source of angst for your organization? Do you need more engaged board members but aren’t sure where to find them? Do you need to impose terms but [...]

In my experience, partnerships among organizations are even more valuable in the nonprofit sector than other industries for a few reasons: Resources are often scarce, organizations’ missions [...]

I was probably about a third of the way through my MBA program when I first heard it. Like many of you who have attended school while working full-time, it’s not easy to recall the time frame. [...]