Posts in 'boards'

The care and feeding of the wide variety of board members found in your aquarium is essential to nurture growth in fundraising. The different species of board members providing the legal and financial backbone of nonprofit organizations are as diverse as the fish found in the National Aquarium. Like...

Phew, what does all that even mean? While there are distinctive approaches to each of the above processes, each one represents a variation of exploring your capacity to create aspirational plans with achievable results. Five Reasons for Why in the World Should You Do This : ** Planning a campaign? *...

My answer is no. And Yes. In some ways I feel like I am swimming upstream when it comes to Giving Tuesday, which has been observed by a vast number of U.S. nonprofit organizations for the last decade or so. I am a minor fan. But also, not a fan. I guess you could say my relationship status with this...

Find a secret weapon to help get you unstuck When we were kids, and we found ourselves stuck at a railroad crossing, waiting as a passing train rolled by, we came up with a game of counting box cars. At an average of 55 feet, when you reach 100, the train length is about one mile long – and trains...

Before recruiting another board member, ask yourself these three questions: 1. In relation to your organization's strategy, what roles are needed now? 2. What specific skills would strengthen the overall board of directors? 3. Whose voices are missing from your leadership? Are your recruitment...

Sometimes we get stuck and fail to see opportunities and resources that are within our grasp. We may mistakenly perceive our path as a dead end, when in fact it is simply curving in a new direction. Here are five tips to consider, when it feels like your forward momentum has slowed: 1. Consider how...