The board meeting has been on the calendar for months. And yet, you show up to find only a third of the members in attendance. How frustrating!! What the heck is the problem? Don’t they care about your mission anymore? Are they all travelling suddenly? Are they thinking about leaving the board? Dang, you certainly [...]
Your boss may be the CEO, director or board president. It doesn’t matter, the strategy is the same. There will be times when you need to get support for your philanthropy plan or for a new marketing channel or permission to hire another employee or get buy-in for how to get the board engaged in [...]
I hear it all the time. You don’t have enough time to search out the answer. You feel all alone in this challenging world of nonprofit work. Your board members don’t understand and you don’t want to over-share with your staff team. Where are the resources you need?? I’ve said all this myself at [...]
When you have all your board members fully involved in your annual campaign, the energy is palpable and the results are impressive! And yet, it’s consistently an area of struggle for nonprofits. Rather than accept this as just the way things are, ask yourself if you’re treating your long-time board members at least as well [...]
More people have started looking at nonprofits differently, thanks in part to Dan Pallotta’s Ted Talk and letters regarding the Overhead Myth. We have a long way to go and YOU can help change the conversation to what really matters – impact. It’s misguided and ineffective to base decisions solely on some ambiguous overhead number [...]
Spring tends to be the time when many nonprofits are thinking about how to recruit a new class of board members. Instead of a typical blog post, let's really talk. Here's a short, 4-minute video blog to emphasize 3 steps I want to share with you that will get the right people on board who [...]