Topics: Board Best Practices, Emerging Leaders, Board Chair
Balanced scorecards, dashboards, strategic plan reports, even routine financial and activity reports: They range from basic to varying degrees of sophistication relative to accountability, management, and governance. “Metrics” is the prevailing mantra, but do the metrics that are routinely tracked...
moreTopics: Board Best Practices, Mission Impact, oversight, financial oversight
Nonprofit boards are tasked with overseeing the management of their organizations, but who oversees the board? While outside agencies may comment and provide feedback on board functioning, at the end of the day, boards are responsible for evaluating their own performance.
moreIn today’s issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review, Anne Wallestad and Katie Smith Milway identify six moments in every organization’s business cycle that are ripe for discussion around how mergers and alliances can advance mission and impact. We provide a short excerpt of the piece here but...
moreTopics: Mergers
This blog post is the third in a series written by foundation leaders in response to a new research report published by BoardSource titled Foundation Board Leadership: A Closer Look at Foundation Board Responses to Leading with Intent 2017. This report is an effort to better understand the...
moreTopics: Board Diversity & Inclusivity, Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit, Leading with Intent, Family Foundations
sec·tor ˈsektər/ noun 1. an area or portion that is distinct from others Writing in 1924, the brilliant British author Virginia Woolf made her now famous observation about rapid changes in human society during the early 20th century:
On or about December 1910, human character changed. I am not...
moreTopics: Perspectives on Board Service, Mission Impact, New Trends & Resources, Current Events
BoardSource created the Stand for Your Mission Awards to recognize nonprofit boards that have established advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership, and, by doing so, are helping their organizations realize their missions.
moreTopics: The Board’s Role in Advocacy, Advocacy, Stand for Your Mission, board engagement, collaboration
This blog post is the second in a series written by foundation leaders in response to a new research report published by BoardSource titled Foundation Board Leadership: A Closer Look at Foundation Board Responses to Leading with Intent 2017. This report is an effort to better understand the...
moreTopics: Board Diversity & Inclusivity, Leading with Intent, Foundations, Family Foundations
This blog post is the first in a series written by foundation leaders in response to a new research report published by BoardSource titled Foundation Board Leadership: A Closer Look at Foundation Board Responses to Leading with Intent 2017.This report is an effort to better understand the...
moreTopics: Board Best Practices, Leading with Intent: A National Index of Nonprofit, Research, Generative Governance, Shared Leadership, Foundations, Family Foundations
Anne Wallestad shared her thoughts on the board’s role in protecting an organization’s people from sexual misconduct in today’s issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly. We summarize her thoughts here but encourage you to read It’s Time for Nonprofit Boards to Have a Conversation About Sexual Misconduct in...
moreTopics: Culture, Current Events
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