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6 Reasons Finance Belongs in Your Nonprofit Board Room
Finance and accounting have moved from the back room to the board room. That’s the message from this week’s guest blogger, finance pro Paul Konigstein. While it should be obvious to most nonprofit board members how important finance is to …
Board Recruiting Best Practices – A Wrap Up
As one of the leading personalized nonprofit board matching services in the country, we get asked quite a lot, “what can my board be doing better to win at the board recruiting game?” We would answer that your board is …
Board Recruiting Best Practices – Show your board you love them – Put them on your website
With nearly 2 million nonprofit board seats opening up in this country every year, nonprofits need to work hard to successfully recruit the most attractive board members. We’ve discussed many different strategies for doing just that in this blog. One …
8 Tips To Make Your Nonprofit’s Emails More Clickable
With all the email traffic competing for attention with your nonprofit’s message, how do you stand out? Our good friends down at nonprofit Tech Impact in Philadelphia had some great advice for us in this week’s guest post. Thanks Tech …
5 (Very Simple) Steps to Build a Major Gifts Program from the Ground Up
Does your nonprofit have a major gifts program? Scared to start one? Not even sure where you would begin. Many nonprofit leaders feel the same way you do. That’s why we asked fundraising pro Gail Perry to weigh in this …
Board Recruiting Best Practices – What do you REALLY want from me?
As a nonprofit ourselves, we know just how hard it is for nonprofit leaders to ask their board to financially participate in the important work their nonprofit is doing. With board members giving so much of their time and energy …
Board Recruiting Best Practices – Where and When should your board meet?
Where and when your board meets might be more important than what your nonprofit actually does…at least to some potential board members. Surprising news for some nonprofits, but with nearly 2 million board seats opening up in the country every …
A new $10,000 a year donor is calling – will your nonprofit take the call – or put them on hold?
Your first reaction: of course they will take the call! But surprisingly, many nonprofits don’t take the call when that new donor is a potential board member. Is your nonprofit one of the many that isn’t responding promptly to every …
How much do board members really give to nonprofit boards? Check out our 2015 report on Nonprofit Giving
You don’t need a Roman numeral at the end of your name, or a trust fund, to serve on a nonprofit board. How much money do board members really give to nonprofit boards? Read our 2015 Report on Nonprofit Giving …
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 …