Succession Planning Tips for Nonprofits
If one of your top leaders quits tomorrow, will your nonprofit be prepared to handle the fallout? For many organizations, the answer is no [...]
Strong Nonprofit Leader-Board Relationships Set the Stage for Success
The most successful nonprofits share a fundamental trait. At the heart of each organization, the leader (president, CEO or executive director) and governing board [...]
When Boards Strike the Right Chords
When the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) played its first notes, Grover Cleveland was president of the United States. The year was 1887, and the [...]
Building a Better Nonprofit Governing Board
Remember when your nonprofit got started? You probably launched your organization with a small, informal group of founders with strong passion for the mission [...]
How to Build an Effective Founding Board
All nonprofit organizations need a governing board for practical, ethical and legal reasons – that’s a given. But these days, a strong, smoothly functioning [...]