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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest on Social Media
We all know it’s super important for nonprofits to engage with social media to get their important message out, but how much time does your nonprofit really need to invest here? Does posting 1-3 times a week generate the same …
How to Ask Your Donors for Feedback So They’ll Love You Even More
Are you asking your donors for feedback? Guest blogger Gail Perry, a major fundraising pro, feels strongly that smart fundraisers need to focus here, and tells us exactly how to do that in this week’s terrific guest post. What would …
Seven Nonprofit Finance Tips to Keep Your Board Out of Trouble
You’ve just joined a nonprofit board and are ready to get started making an impact. Terrific! One of the most impactful things you may accomplish as a board member is helping your nonprofit with their finances. Nonprofit finance pro Paul …
Seven Ways a Board Member Can Support Their Executive Director and Organization
What do nonprofit Executive Directors really want from their board members? We know nonprofit leaders rely on their boards for financial support, but they also need so much more from them in non-financial ways. What are those ways to help …
Top 9 Tips for Managing Your Junior Board
Every day BoardAssist is approached by enthusiastic millennials who are eager to be agents of change on a nonprofit board. Unfortunately many of these terrific candidates are either too young to be considered for a full board seat by our …
CEO Transition – Are you Ready for the Inevitable?
Half of all nonprofit CEOs intend to leave their posts within the next five years, yet only one-third of nonprofit boards have an executive succession plan. Does your board have one? As many boards are not ready for a CEO …
Governance, Governance, Governance
Not all nonprofit board members are financial experts, but every board member owes the stakeholders of their nonprofit, the duty to help steer their nonprofit in the right direction. For help in doing that, we turned to finance pro Paul …
4 Strategies To Help Assess Your Nonprofit’s Technology
With the amount of new and innovative technology that is surfacing every day, assessing your nonprofit’s technology should be a daily process. But where to begin with this very important process? For answers, we turned, once again, to Philadelphia nonprofit …
Your Board Members Can Become “Door Openers.” Here’s How!
Most people join nonprofit boards because they truly want to be “agents of change” on the boards they join. So why are some board members more successful at that than others? Guest blogger Gail Perry believes that any board member …
5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Program may not be SUSTAINABLE
How do you increase your chances of program sustainability? This week’s guest blogger, nonprofit consultant Stephanie Spindell argues that a clear analytical process should be followed before jumping into any new business venture. Sounds like good advice to us, Stephanie. …