Archive for April, 2010

Are you interested in building future board members who understand your agency and know how to be nonprofit leaders? I believe that this is vital to the continued success of any nonprofit. Here’s a interesting approach to developing these young leaders.
One of my current clients has created a Leadership Board. This is a group of [...]

How can we turn our successful business board members into nonprofit leaders?

We must recognize:
• People bring their business and life experiences to a new culture (nonprofit) where everyone is participating on a voluntary basis. While most volunteers are very committed to the agency’s cause, people are busy with work and their personal life and often put [...]

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where one issue absorbs the entire meeting and the other issues get pushed to the side?
The Executive and I were debriefing after the last Board meeting. The main item on the agenda was a consultant’s presentation on the pro’s and con’s of the unionization of the staff. [...]

How do agencies determine the level of the Board members gifts?
An article in this morning’s New York Times indicated that the largest cultural institutions in that city require that Trustees contribute from $250,000 to $10 million to sit on the Board. Read the article
Read the article here.
In Los Angeles the amounts aren’t quite that [...]

Why do we need volunteers in a nonprofit?
The whole nonprofit field was built on volunteerism. Almost every nonprofit began with a group of volunteers sitting around a table trying to find ways to solve a community problem. As our agencies have grown and become more complicated, we needed to hire staff, and we have professionalized [...]