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...
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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...
Tax Exemption at a Crossroads?
In the wake of the IRS issues with determining the tax-exempt status of organizations that had applied for 501(c)(4) status, there seems to be more...
More Charitable Organizations Using Single-Member LLCs
Many section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations are using single-member limited liability companies (SMLLCs) in their structures. With the recent...
5 reasons you should be a GuideStar Exchange participant
There are myriad reasons you should consider joining the GuideStar Exchange program, the only program of its kind that encourages nonprofit...
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