The Board of the Rings: Assembling an Epic Board to Save Your NPO (and Maybe Middle Earth)
Knowing how to assemble a great board of directors for your nonprofit should be like something out of a Tolkien novel.
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The Importance of Nonprofit Workplace Culture: How PENCIL Thrives by Writing Their Own Path
Think back to a time where glue sticks, pencil sharpeners and new folders and books were abundant. There’s probably a specific classroom you...
Why Board Members Need to Be on Board with Nonprofit Storytelling
Nonprofit storytelling is crucial to conveying your organization’s message to donors and volunteers alike. Your staff knows your mission...
Ditch the Boring—5 Tips for Running an Effective Board Meeting
It’s time to take back what should be the time to take action. But instead, we’ve all been sitting through board meetings trying to weed through the...
10 Ways to Immediately Invest in Your Nonprofit Organization
If we ran our lives like we run our NPOs, many of us would be in huge trouble. Don’t believe me? Let’s apply nonprofit-logic to some day-to-day life...
How 6 Authentic Values Can Produce Staggering Outcomes for Your Small Nonprofit
Core values get talked up a lot. And nonprofits can’t just cook up core values to make themselves look attractive. Those values must be consistently...
4 Ways to Motivate Your Bored Board Members Through Year-End
It’s the time of year when you have to give your board members “the talk.” You know—the one where you tell them that it would be great if every...
6 Quick Lessons on Teaching Your Board Members to Solicit Gifts
Some of your board agreed to help solicit gifts from your donors? Great! Now how do you move forward with teaching your board members to solicit...
How to Control the Future of Your Nonprofit (Even if Funders Don’t Grasp its Challenges)
I’ll quickly agree that the pressure on nonprofits is mind-blowing. But I also believe that harboring toxic thoughts can get you nowhere fast. So...
Does Your Organization Have “Solid Performers” or Rock Stars?
Succession planning as a topic often elicits a response of “Ugh, do I have to?” However, you can use succession planning to develop rock stars on...
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