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The Numbers Dont Add Up
September 29, 2015

The Numbers Don’t Add Up

The numbers don’t add up. According to CohnReznick’s 2015 Not-For-Profit Governance Survey, 81% of respondents ranked cyber security as a leading cause of concern among nonprofit leaders, yet only 11% of boards have created risk management or IT committees. Perhaps…

September 23, 2015

Coming to Terms with Conflicts of Interest

What do board conflicts of interest and pornography have in common? Nothing, it turns out. While the latter is vaguely defined but commonly recognized “when we see it,” conflicts of interest seem to be the opposite – clearly defined yet often NOT recognized, even in plain sight.

August 25, 2015

Building Board Crisis Management (and Prevention) Capacity

Despite great intentions otherwise, nonprofit – and for-profit – boards frequent the news. While the Planned Parenthood crisis is front and center now, headlines have covered all sorts of “scandals” in recent years (ie. Penn State, Target, Enron, Sweet Briar College). Even the ALS board faced the spotlight during last year’s wildly successful “Ice Bucket…

How To Sell Board Management Software To Your Board
August 13, 2015

How to Sell Board Management Software to Your Board

New technology, like Board Management Software, isn’t always welcomed into an organization, even when it’s urgently needed. Champions at every level encounter obstacles. Exponent Partners explains why, noting that program teams focus on their priorities, not the organization as a whole, and leadership doesn’t have the capacity to research new projects. So how can you…

Nonprofit Board Social Media
July 28, 2015

Social Media Meets (and Makes) the Nonprofit Board

Like sailboat captains trying to turn ocean liners, certain nonprofit board members aim to drive innovation while boards themselves tend to move more slowly. To that point, any board still debating the importance of social media in its nonprofit has missed the boat. In almost no time, social media swiftly infiltrated not only communications and…

June 30, 2015

The Likely New Legacy of Nonprofit Leadership

Who wouldn’t jump at the opportunity to guarantee a great legacy? Most of us want to be remembered for the impact we’ve had on something that matters. Ironically, nonprofit boards often cringe at what can – and should – be among their defining legacies: executive succession. According to a recent study by Leadership New England…

May 20, 2015

Boards Covet Tech Savvy

Board diversity, of all things, might be the catalyst for an unexpected parity between nonprofit and corporate boards. Research shows both venues need – and slowly seek – new perspective in the form of millennials. NPR recently reported that millennials comprise the largest workforce ever in the US. In fact, according to an article in…

April 23, 2015

Avoiding Board Burnout: Dashboards Deliver the Antidote to TMI

In the absence of time, we err toward an abundance of information. Quoting a French philosopher who said, “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter,” a recent article in Associations Now illustrates the irony of packing all available information into a report and hoping its readers have the capacity to…

March 23, 2015

“Nonprofit” Still Means Business

Nonprofit doesn’t mean non-business.  Since the “non” part of profit simply refers to where profit goes (back into the organization, not to shareholders), a nonprofit is otherwise a mission-driven business, complete with business processes, revenue, P&L, employees, etc. Almost. Perhaps the key difference between nonprofit and for-profit businesses lies in perception — society’s AND their…

March 18, 2015

When Good Boards Break Down

Sometimes, despite good intentions, nonprofit boards miss the mark. Even when organizational decline is obvious to external stakeholders, the board fails to recognize the problem or solution. While most of these crises aren’t necessarily caused by the board, the board sometimes is the culprit.  A recent article in The Nonprofit Times identifies common circumstances and potential…

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