Every not-for-profit board I have been privileged to serve on had term limits in place when I left the board, if not so when I joined. That has been a strong position of mine for many years, and for good reasons, as my own experience amply demonstrated. The last board...
The title of this short piece is the mantra that I always give to our nonprofit clients and to board members of organizations on whose board I’ve been privileged to serve. It is a fact of mission and purpose that a nonprofit organization doesn’t get...
For CEOs of those companies large enough – or wise enough – to have a board of directors or even an advisory board, and for all the nonprofit organizations whose governance requires a board of directors, this question is for you. How have you chosen your...
I have just recorded a new educational webinar – it’s an online course entitled: Strategic Planning for the Nonprofit Organization The course is based on my more than 15 years of working with nonprofit agencies from the consultant and board perspective. This course...
I have written in the past about the need for every leader of a nonprofit organization to run it like a business, blending the commitment to mission with the need to make sound business decisions, especially in the area of finances. Some of those articles and posts...
