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...
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...
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,...
“When you improve finance and accounting acumen across the company, good things happen,” says Jonathan Schiff, an accounting professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University and a longtime advisor to corporations. He was quoted in CFO Magazine, the leading professional...
