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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3 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to be More Energy Efficient
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
As New York’s leading personalized board matching service, BoardAssist is approached daily by New Yorkers who want to join a board where they can be a real agent of change. Once on board, our placements often ask “what more can …
Tags: energy efficiency, environment
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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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Top 10 Fundraising Trends and Predictions for 2016
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
What are the trends that are going to impact your nonprofit in 2016? Fundraising guru Gail Perry shares them all with us in this week’s guest post starting with donor loyalty, something we should all be working harder at! Thanks …
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Finding a Nonprofit Partner: Who is the Right One?
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
There comes a moment in most nonprofits’ lives where they realize it might be helpful to collaborate with a partner on anything from programming to sharing back-office expenses to a full out merger. But once this determination has been made, …
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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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Seven Secrets to a Successful Search for your Nonprofit’s Next Executive Director
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
Is your nonprofit about to embark on a search for a new Executive Director? Finding the perfect new leader for your nonprofit is a big task and one that nonprofits can’t afford to get wrong. For help on optimizing your …
Tags: management
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Top 9 Tips for Managing Your Junior Board
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
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 …
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CEO Transition – Are you Ready for the Inevitable?
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
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 …
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5 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Program may not be SUSTAINABLE
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
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. …
Tags: strategy
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