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Is Your NY Nonprofit Ready for the Nonprofit Revitalization Act?
Is your New York nonprofit ready for the new Nonprofit Revitalization Act? Are you familiar with the requirements of the new Act? To help nonprofits across the State get ready, we turned to finance expert Paul Konigstein for this terrific …
6 Ways to Get The Most Out of a Major Donor Visit
You finally got an appointment to meet with your Big Donor…now what? Always ready with great fundraising advice, guest blogger Gail Perry has terrific guidance for us in her guest post this week below. Thanks Gail for these terrific tips. …
How to Ask the Right Questions About Nonprofit Strategy
Do you feel you know the right questions to ask about your nonprofit’s strategy? Do you know what that strategy is? Molly Penn of Penn Flood Consulting spends her day advising nonprofits on strategy and governance. This week, in her …
3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media
Not all social media channels are created equal. That’s just one of the great pieces of advice we got from this week’s terrific guest blogger Anthony Pisapia of Philadelphia nonprofit Tech Impact. Read on for more about what every board …
How to Thank Your Donors: Stop Focusing on the Money!
Stop thinking of your donors as ATM machines and really focus on them as people. Think about what they do for your organization. That’s the advice we got this week from guest blogger Amy Eisenstein, a top fundraising consultant who …
Let’s Talk About Succession Planning: Getting the Conversation Started
At some point in the life of any nonprofit, succession planning becomes a topic on which everyone must focus. Melissa Mendes Campos, of California’s La Piana Consulting, shares her very useful thoughts on this topic in a terrific guest post …
Top 3 Board Member Excuses Not to Give
“Why don’t my board members help more with fundraising?” We get asked this question almost daily at BoardAssist. For some guidance on how to answer this question and better engage your board with fundraising, we turned to fundraising pro Amy …
How I Became a Nonprofit Board Chair (and Lived to Tell About It)
Back by popular demand, guest blogging for us again, is Randy Hawthorne, Executive Director of Nonprofit Hub. As someone who has chaired the board of a half dozen nonprofits, we are very grateful Randy has generously agreed to share his …
The CEO/Board Chair Relationship
The CEO/Board Chair relationship can either propel a nonprofit to achieve enormous good in their sector, or act as a major hindrance towards accomplishing that goal. We field questions about how to strengthen this bond on a weekly basis, so …
Top Twelve Tips for Courting New Board Members
With nearly 2 million board seats opening up in the United States ever year, it’s not easy for nonprofit leaders to successfully compete for, and win over, fantastic new board members. Our job at BoardAssist is to do just that …