These words were recently uttered by the CEO of a mid-sized nonprofit organization to his nominating committee. The intent was to signal a sea change in attitude during the search for new board members for the ensuing year. With an above-average give-or-get policy,...
OK, how did we do it? What are the tactics behind the strategic bullets outlined in our last post on this topic? After all, strategy goes for naught if it isn’t supported by tactics, operational goals, and ACTION. Here are the actions that produced the startling...
If you’ve read the last two weekly posts in this column, you’d have to agree that the two nonprofit organizations that I’ve written about could hardly be more different. Isn’t it amazing how dramatically different these two agencies are? Not just in...
This organization has a $12 million annual budget. The average tenure of current board members is about 4 years, and new board members are elected from the community each year. About ten percent of the board members are retired, the rest are actively engaged in...
Following up on my introduction of this series of posts, here is the first of two agencies that I want to share with you. This organization has a $7 million annual budget. The board is mostly composed of long time board members, some have been on the board for over 20...
