Here are five tips for nonprofit board and organizational leaders who want to ensure their organization continues to be relevant and sustainable in the future. 1. Strategic planning is partnership. All organizational stakeholders must be included in the strategic conversation. Involvement creates ownership and trust which are
Read more →Is governance a board of directors activity or is it an operating system that includes the entire organization? Yes, this question was the title of my January 20th post. I posed this question on a LinkedIn discussion group called the Nonprofit Board Forum to see what they
Read more →Every nonprofit organization has a governance system! More accurately, a governance operating system. Just as Windows 7 powers most PCs and Snow Leopard powers Macs, the governance operating system powers the nonprofit organization! The Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Program defines governance as “…the system of management and
Read more →Of all of the books I read in 2010 on Governance and Leadership, here are my top five: The Truth about What Nonprofit Boards Want by June Bradham. The author identifies nine myths about boards and then responds with the truth. My favorite myth/truth was Myth#4: CEO
Read more →Dan was my first boss as a newly minted college graduate. He invited me to work with him in a nonprofit organization that he and a group of friends started several years earlier. Dan was the Executive Director of Society’s Assets, Inc. While I only worked with
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