Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the healthcare industry has been undergoing more major changes than almost any other industry. The changes that ACA brought with it…

Boards of higher education institutions may be called by different terms and have slightly different underlying structures depending on whether they’re an independent college or university, nonprofit institution or public…

Every nonprofit board does its best work when it has the right people, the right processes and the right tools. There is one specific tool that helps boards with essentially…

When it comes to governance, colleges and universities have more at stake than the good name and reputation of their institutions. Colleges and universities were originally founded to educate the…

Nonprofit boards have needed tools to help manage their meetings for many decades. Up until the past decade or two, boards have needed to rely on manual tools to help…

Nonprofit boards spend the vast amount of their time checking up on employees, volunteers and other stakeholders. At least once a year, nonprofit boards should take the time to look…

Best practices for governance give us some general guidelines about the expectations for the individual who serves in the role of executive director. The guidelines are broad because every organization…

Did you know that you don’t have to be interested or involved in a specific cause to serve on a nonprofit board of directors? The fact is that there are…