Ensuring Long-Term Sustainability for Your Nonprofit
Every nonprofit started with a great idea for serving people. The group may include people in a particular community or a group of people that have specific characteristics in common.…
How Can Organizations Support Their Board Without Wasting Time & Money?
Oversight is the board’s responsibility. In the interest of stewardship and gaining the public’s trust, it’s common for nonprofits to maintain a fairly lean budget and keep a good eye…
Cutting Through the Noise: The Keys to Efficient Board Collaboration
If you’re like most people, checking your email is part of your morning routine. With the average person getting over 246 emails per day, there’s a lot of information to…
12 Tips to Master Governance and Compliance for Nonprofit Boards
As needs within communities have grown, the number of nonprofit organizations has grown along with them. Nonprofits have grown about 20% in recent decades. The growth of nonprofits, along with…
Top 7 Disruptive Forces Today’s Nonprofits Face – And How to Solve for Them
With so much change going on in the world today, it’s clear that an intricate web of disruptive factors for nonprofits is a prime issue for nonprofit boards. Changes in…
Sample Financial Policies & Procedures for Nonprofits
Regardless of your nonprofit’s size and no matter what types of services it offers, it's essential to adopt financial policies and procedures. There are many benefits for your nonprofit in…
6 Key Steps to Operationalize Board Member Education
If you've done a good job of recruiting new board members and succession planning, incoming board members will bring some degree of knowledge about governance practices with them. Regardless of…
Strengthening Community Ties: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Better Approach Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The death of George Floyd and other tragedies involving Black Americans issued a wake-up call for most everyone. As it should, it also prompted attention to the lack of diversity…
The Importance of Establishing a Nonprofit Investment Policy
Nonprofits rely heavily on donations from grantors and donors. It’s common for well-established nonprofit organizations with sound financial backing to invest some portion of the organization’s financial assets in stocks,…
7 Key Steps to Digitizing Governance
Anytime big changes are happening in the corporate world, nonprofit organizations need to pay attention. That’s because many of the same issues that occur in businesses have a residual effect…
