As mission-driven entities, nonprofits face specific pressures and challenges in promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I). An organization’s values will promote a greater good when DE&I is a priority — a good that often benefits overlapping demographics and could…
As generative AI becomes more widely accepted, many leaders in the nonprofit and charity sector are no longer asking whether they should use it, but rather where else they can use it. After all, as a transformative technology that…
Property damage. Financial damage. Reputational damage. These are just some of the crises nonprofits can face. In reality, they take even more shapes. Few board members sign on to deal with a major crisis for their organizations, but in…
For what is usually unpaid volunteer work, board service for mission-driven organizations can demand an outsized time commitment. The most valuable board members are those whose professions, networks and expertise bring concrete benefits to support the mission — and…
Data maturity is no longer a goal exclusive to the corporate world. Nonprofit educational organizations are similarly pursuing — and achieving — data maturity, where organizational leaders use data to drive decision-making. But many educational boards are at an…
The past few years have been a crash course in crisis response — thanks in part to the pandemic, but also related and unrelated issues that continue to plague today’s nonprofit and mission-driven organizations. These include financial turmoil, regulatory…
Data maturity is no longer a goal exclusive to the corporate world. Mission-driven organizations are similarly pursuing — and achieving — data maturity, where organizational leaders use data to drive decision-making. But many credit union boards are at an…
Data maturity is no longer a goal exclusive to the corporate world. Nonprofit healthcare organizations are similarly pursuing — and achieving — data maturity, where organizational leaders use data to drive decision-making. But many healthcare boards are at an…
Volunteer board resignations run the gamut from expected to disruptive and, sometimes, even a relief. When a board resignation makes the news, there is usually a high-profile conflict behind it, such as the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane…
In an ideal world, every nonprofit board member serves out their term, and the rare, unexpected resignation happens during a quiet period, causing minimal disruption. We don’t live in an ideal world. A resignation letter can come at any…
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