Nonprofit Board Best Practices – Lessons From the 2020 BoardAssist Board Summit
Monday, April 8th, 2019
We learned a lot at the recent BoardAssist Nonprofit Board Summit on how to be an outstanding board member. Our amazing panelists, some of New York’s most prominent nonprofit and corporate board members, had lots of practical and actionable …
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Seven Ways to Improve Engagement With Your Nonprofit Financial Reports
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
As New York’s leading personalized nonprofit board matching service, high impact New Yorkers approach BoardAssist daily looking for ways to find a board where they can engage. Once placed on a board by us, our placements are often the only …
Tags: nonprofit finance
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How to build your Nonprofit’s Budget – Collaborate!
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
Collaboration is the most important ingredient in developing your nonprofit’s budget. That’s the advice we got from finance pro, Paul Konigstein, our guest blogger of the week. For more great advice from Paul, read on below. Budgeting for any nonprofit …
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Managing Your Not-for-Profit’s Endowment – How to Ensure Present and Future Success
Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
Does your organization have a sound, carefully managed and board-approved Investment Policy Statement? Do you have a firm grasp on how much of your endowment’s return should be spent vs. reinvested based on the current and future needs of your …
Tags: financial management, governance
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Use Nonprofit Financials as a Strategic Decision-Making Tool
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
Philanthropic New Yorkers come to BoardAssist every day looking to join a board where they can play a meaningful role – and “be the change” they want to see in the world. As guest blogger Paul Konigstein has discussed in …
Tags: nonprofit finance
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Nonprofit Finance: Cash Flow is Do or Die
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
As New York’s leading personalized board matching service, folks come to BoardAssist every day looking to make a difference in the nonprofit world. They want us to find them a way to truly be an agent of change on the …
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Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Two: Smart Nonprofit Business Models
Tuesday, April 4th, 2017
How do you determine if the nonprofit on whose board you sit is financially healthy? We’ve been discussing this very important topic in a 3 part series of guest blogs posts from the folks at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF). …
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Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part Three: Understanding Full Costs
Tuesday, March 14th, 2017
You’ve joined a nonprofit board and want to make sure you are doing all you can to be a great board member – but don’t know much about best practices for nonprofit financial health. Not to worry. In the third …
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Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part One: Top 3 Measures of Financial Health
Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
BoardAssist prides itself on identifying board candidates for the nonprofit world who will be leaders on the boards where we place them. With over 90% of our placements doing just that, within a year of being placed, we can see …
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Five of Our Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015
Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
What were the blog posts that were most popular on the BoardAssist blog in 2015? Thanks to Google Analytics, its easy for us identify which ones resonated most with our followers. As the advice our guest bloggers offered in 2015 …
Tags: best practices, communications, finance, recruiting
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