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How BoardSite Can Help Your Nonprofit Board Be More Productive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Sponsored by BoardSite — a board of directors management platform that centralizes key administrative tasks like meeting scheduling, document management, and online voting in a secure digital platform. Between coordinating busy schedules and deciding on agenda items, it’s often difficult for nonprofit boards to be truly productive.

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Inclusive Board Meetings

Stanford Social Innovation Review

From 2019 to 2021 corporate boards increased their diversity by 50 percent , just as many social sector boards have responded to societal wakeup calls by recruiting more members who can represent the communities they serve. Agree on the Big Why There is no shortage of strategies for creating successful board meetings.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

In my four decades as a senior fundraising executive, part-time consultant, and nonprofit CEO, I have worked with (or served on) 20 nonprofit boards. In the process, I was exposed to a number of organizations whose boards struggled with a variety of issues. Reality 1: Most boards live by the rule of thirds.

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Nonprofits are NOT self-reliant

Fundraising Coach

One of the biggest red-herrings I see nonprofit boards pursue is a pipe dream of “self sufficiency” for their nonprofit. Rather than pursuing their mission, the board directs the executive director to look at selling things and renting things in a quixotic attempt to be financially independent.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

Unlike the board of directors, which has oversight of the organization, advisory committees don’t have any oversight of the organization. Instead, they serve as partners in your work, representing the community you serve and even boosting the productivity of your workforce. Define the advisory committee’s focus.

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Newsletter: Who Must You Engage with in Corporate Partnerships? Retailers Use Precious Store Space to Showcase Causes Instead of Products ; Lush ‘Bath Bomb’ Supports Teaching Truth in History

Selfish Giving

Maybe you have a passionate board member who owns a chain of stores and is eager for a partnership and promises to do most of the work. If you are a smallish nonprofit with a modest team your answer may be to hire a partnership professional who can solely work on individual donors and board members with business connections.

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Black women and gender-expansive nonprofit leaders: Combating the absence of trust 

Candid

The absence of trust Black women and gender-expansive leaders report that their decisions are often challenged and undermined by board members. Unfair expectations: These nonprofit leaders also encounter unrealistic expectations—to fix organizations struggling with financial difficulties, internal chaos, or boards in disarray.