10 Nonprofit Budget Best Practices for Sound Financial Management
What do nonprofit budget best practices have to say about whether your budget should be balanced or have an overage? Does your board have standards for how to manage a…
Best Practices for an Effective Virtual Board Communication Strategy
So much gets lost in the translation when communication isn't clear. That's never a good thing when it comes to board communication. Communication is difficult enough when you're speaking face-to-face.…
Best Practices for Nonprofit Board Oversight
It’s often only after someone joins a nonprofit board that they suddenly realize the full weight of their duties and responsibilities. Before someone accepts a position on a nonprofit board,…
Document Retention Policy: Best Practices for Boards
In a perfect world, your nonprofit will never need to rely on your document retention policy. Unfortunately, that’s not a reality for many nonprofits. If your board ever has to…
Secure Collaboration Best Practices: The Dangers of Password Protected PDFs
It’s taken the general public some time to get used to various document formats. It’s taken even more time, as well as a few serious and publicly embarrassing mishaps, for…
Succession Planning Best Practices for Nonprofit Boards
Strong leadership is vital for nonprofits and succession planning helps you maintain that. Key board members and executive leaders play key roles in the health of your organization. Often, it’s…
Technology Best Practices for Governance Professionals
Board work has evolved over time; the only way boards can keep pace is with the support of modern-day governance professionals. Today’s governance professionals now fill an essential, strategic role…
Nonprofit Board of Directors Training Best Practices
People and passion draw people to serve on a board. Nonprofit board of director best practices will help them fulfill that role well. As prepared as most board members believe…
Technology Risk Management Best Practices for Boards
Every industry uses technology in one form or another and most companies increase the number or sophistication of the digital processes they use a little every year. In some industries,…
Performance Evaluation Best Practices for Boards
The beginning process for a board evaluation can be a little daunting even if you’ve participated in them before. Every board should consider itself a work in progress so there’s…
