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…
Best Practices for Recruiting Volunteers for Nonprofits
Enthusiastic volunteers are the hallmark of a respectable, well-run nonprofit organization. Whether your volunteers commit a few hours here or there or whether they’re daily fixtures in your offices, they…
Digital Governance Best Practices
Depending on the average age of the board directors and senior executives, organizations may have top corporate leadership teams that are primarily digital conservatives. Best practices for digital governance are…
