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When Nonprofit Boards Meddle: The Dangers Of Micromanagement

Bloomerang

When board members blur the lines between governance and management, they inadvertently sabotage the organization. The nonprofit sector is already a high-pressure environment, and when boards meddle in daily operations, it creates chaos, demoralizes leadership, erodes culture, and derails mission-critical activities.

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Educating the Nonprofit Leaders of the Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Institutionality: Students almost always play an important role in recruiting and coordinating activities, but NBFPs have a choice about how much overall program design and partner relationship management is student-run, part-time supported by staff, or led by a dedicated director and faculty sponsor. Manage the Matching Process.

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“We’re Not Meant to Do Life Alone”: The Invisible Network of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

That kind of parent engagement isn’t just helpful—it’s nonprofit governance in action. Many PTAs, school foundations, and advisory councils operate as community-based nonprofits. In the wake of the storms, nonprofits and local agencies mobilized quickly to meet urgent needs. Everyone showed up.”

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Share That Data: Interoperable Datasets Spark Innovation Collecting and managing the large datasets underpinning AI is expensive. By enabling users to skip the hard work of collecting, cleaning, and labeling the data, they can instead devote their limited resources to putting this data to work for managing their health systems.

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Nonprofit Influencers

Affnetz

For example, different lists on Fundraising Experts, Fundraising Consultants, Nonprofit Branding, Nonprofit Governance, Nonprofit “Think Tanks”, Grantmakers, Nonprofit DEI, etc. Please share some of your nonprofit lists with me when you have a chance – @thatmikecrum.

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Executive Director

Anedot

Position Overview : The Executive Director (ED) will plan, implement and manage strategies to promote the organization’s mission while ensuring the organizations sustainability and growth. Additionally, the ED will be responsible for the continued development and management of new and existing major donor relationships.

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Getting nonprofit boards on board: Recruiting, governance, and fundraising

Candid

Heres a curated collection of articles and resources covering a wide range of topics on nonprofit boards. As a starting point, check out: Strong boards make strong nonprofits: What you need to know. The lack of board diversity and its implications What do we know about the composition of nonprofit boards, and what are the implications?