When I first started as president and CEO of San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory (SDYS), I found the board members were divided between two strongly held points of view. One group believed in the primacy of musical excellence and the other focused on broadening access to music education. We...
moreTopics: Advocacy
Nonprofits face many challenges today that are unique to the sector, with fundraising being one that immediately comes to mind. But nonprofit organizations are not necessarily as different from their for-profit counterparts as one might think; both require strong governance and oversight to...
moreFoundation Center is the leading source of philanthropic data worldwide and dedicated to advancing knowledge about philanthropy. Today, we are pleased to share the relaunch of our popular online learning platform — GrantSpace.org — with the BoardSource community. Through GrantSpace, Foundation...
moreTopics: The Board’s Role in Advocacy, Advocacy
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
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