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How to Get Beyond B-Minus: The State of Nonprofit Boards Today
If you were to assign a grade to the board on which you serve, what grade would you give it? Earlier this year BoardSource asked nonprofit CEOs to rate their boards. Their findings: boards earned a 2.65 or B- average …
Why Your Nonprofit’s Website Needs To Be Responsive
What does that even mean? If you are like us at BoardAssist, understanding what having a responsive website means may not be obvious to you. That’s why we turned to our good friends down at nonprofit Tech Impact in Philadelphia …
7 Ways to Create Highly Committed Donors
Wouldn’t you like ALL your donors to feel “highly committed” to your organization? That’s the question fundraising maven Gail Perry posed this week in her extremely helpful guest post. Terrific advice Gail! How do we build those highly committed donors?…
10 Soft Skills to Nail the Ask
“Does the thought of making a six figure ask make your palms sweat?” Guest blogger and fundraising consultant Rachel Muir can relate. In this week’s guest post, Rachel offers us all some great advice on how to nail the ask. …
Six Important Tips For Your IRS Form 990
Did you realize that your nonprofit’s IRS Form 990 is available to the general public? This is a big surprise for many nonprofit board members. Armed with this knowledge, a nonprofit misses a terrific opportunity to tell their story as …
Getting Your Money’s Worth From a Nonprofit Consultant
There comes a point in most nonprofit’s lives when they need to go outside their organization and hire a consultant to help with one issue or another. Who better to ask for advice on how to do that well than …
Our 5 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2014
What were the blog posts that were most popular on the BoardAssist blog in 2014? Thanks to Google Analytics, its easy for us identify which ones resonated most with our followers. As the advice our guest bloggers offered in 2014 …
Means and Ends: Who does What
What’s the biggest source of friction we hear about from our nonprofit clients and board candidates? The answer: where the line should be between what nonprofit board members can and should do and what responsibilities more properly reside with the …
112 Tips to Raise More Money by Mail
Direct mail is a major workhorse for all nonprofits. And regardless of what you hear or think about online giving, most gifts still come via the mail. This week guest blogger Gail Perry is back with her top tips to …
How to Make Your Donors Feel like Heroes
As the end of the year draws year, it seemed a great time for us to stop and really think about the donors that make the work we all do possible. How do we properly express our appreciation for their …