How to Hold Engaging Board Orientations While Working Remotely
The pandemic caught the entire world by surprise. During the first few months of the crisis, boards scrambled to make decisions about whether they should continue meeting in person, set…
Charitable Giving Trends: How Nonprofit Leaders Can Keep Up
Nonprofit organizations have always had to work hard to fulfill their missions. A host of variable circumstances can rock even the strongest nonprofit organization. To be sustainable, nonprofit leaders have…
Giving Tuesday: How BoardEffect Is Giving Back to Nonprofits
The year 2020 will go down in history as one of the most taxing years of our lifetimes. In addition to the individual struggles, businesses and nonprofit organizations are facing…
What Are the Benefits of Advisory Boards for Startups?
There’s enough competition in the startup space that new companies need to pull out all the stops to be successful. Great ideas and passion will only take your startup so…
How to Recruit Board Members in a Remote Environment
If you had to choose two words to describe board work in 2020, which would you choose? Most boards might say “adjust” and “adapt”. 2020 has brought a host of…
Re-Evaluating Your Nonprofit Budget for Board Technology
Regardless of what type of programs and services your nonprofit provides, and regardless of how large your nonprofit is, you need some type of technology to function in today’s world.…
CEO Compensation Packages for Nonprofit Boards
The structure of nonprofits varies in many ways and that has a major impact on CEO compensation for nonprofit organizations. It’s impossible to establish one-size-fits-all CEO compensation packages. In fact,…
Sample Board Diversity Policy
Your board’s commitment to creating a board diversity policy is such an important task that you’ll want to get it right. A sample board diversity policy or template can help…
Nonprofit Succession Planning Checklist
If the board president or executive director of your nonprofit organization resigned tomorrow, what’s the first thing would your board do? If your answer is, “I don’t know,” it’s time…
Complying with Nonprofit Laws During a Crisis
When a crisis hits, it hits without warning, and it knows no boundaries. It takes a mighty collective force to deal with a crisis in the most effective way. The…
