--- title: BoardSource Blog - The Leader in Nonprofit Board Governance | Meetings description: Meetings | Nonprofit governance blog devoted to best practices and committed to inspiring nonprofit board service --- ![Blog-0216.jpg](https://blog.boardsource.org/hs-fs/hubfs/blog_photos/Blog-0216.jpg?width=1400&name=Blog-0216.jpg "Blog-0216.jpg") [![Blog-header-logo.png](https://blog.boardsource.org/hs-fs/hubfs/blog_photos/Blog-header-logo.png?width=360&name=Blog-header-logo.png "Blog-header-logo.png")](https://boardsource.org) [Back to blog homepage](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog) [![Board Chair Fostering Board Engagement](https://blog.boardsource.org/hubfs/Alt%201.png)](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-board-chairs-foster-board-engagement) ## [How Board Chairs Foster Board Engagement](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-board-chairs-foster-board-engagement) Posted by [BoardSource](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/boardsource) on Jun 3, 2025, 11:15:00 AM Successful organizations have engaged boards with members who are passionate about the organization’s mission and collective purpose, ask challenging questions, make informed decisions, collaborate with each other, and promote the organization and its work to their networks. Yet board engagement... [more](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-board-chairs-foster-board-engagement) Topics: [Meetings](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/meetings), [Board Chair](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/board-chair), [board engagement](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/board-engagement) [![](https://blog.boardsource.org/hubfs/Blog-casey1.jpg)](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/connecting-the-board-with-its-constituents) ## [On the Ground with Its Grantees](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/connecting-the-board-with-its-constituents) Posted by [Zeeba Khalili](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/zeeba-khalili) on Jan 30, 2020, 3:08:55 PM Riding in a long, yellow school bus, Marguerite Casey Foundation (MCF) board members began their Sunday morning with a tour of Little Haiti, 3.5 square miles comprising the oldest neighborhood of people of Haitian descent in Florida — and one of the largest communities of Haitians in the U.S. ... [more](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/connecting-the-board-with-its-constituents) Topics: [Meetings](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/meetings), [Foundations](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/foundations) [![Papers-Blog-Img.jpg](https://blog.boardsource.org/hubfs/blog_photos/Papers-Blog-Img.jpg)](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/board-members-zoning-out-stop-reading-the-ceos-report) ## [Board Members Zoning Out? Stop Reading the CEO Report](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/board-members-zoning-out-stop-reading-the-ceos-report) Posted by [Robert B. Acton](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/robert-b-acton) on Oct 9, 2017, 10:14:00 AM FADE IN: INT. THE BOARDROOM – NIGHT PETER, the board chair, invites Susan, the organization’s passionate chief executive, to begin her Executive Director Report as the next item on the board meeting agenda. Susan turns to page 12 of the 60-page board packet that she and her team have diligently... 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We hope you will be joining us there.* [more](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/transform-the-bored-room-firecracker-facilitation-tips) Topics: [Board Best Practices](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/board-best-practices), [BoardSource Leadership Forum](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/boardsource-leadership-forum), [Meetings](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/meetings), [board engagement](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/board-engagement) [![gen-gov.png](https://blog.boardsource.org/hubfs/blog_photos/gen-gov.png)](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/generative-governance-making-sense-of-problems-through-critical-inquiry) ## [Generative Governance: Making Sense of Problems through Critical Inquiry](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/generative-governance-making-sense-of-problems-through-critical-inquiry) Posted by [Makiyah Moody](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/makiyah-moody) on Jul 11, 2016, 11:00:00 AM Board meetings tend to remind me of sitcoms: a genre of comedy centered on characters who share a common environment, such as a home, workplace, or a boardroom, with laughable moments. There is usually a board member who lacks self-awareness (i.e. Kramer from *Seinfeld*), someone who has a very high... [more](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/generative-governance-making-sense-of-problems-through-critical-inquiry) Topics: [Meetings](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/meetings), [Generative Governance](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/generative-governance) [![](https://blog.boardsource.org/hubfs/blog_photos/meeting_length.jpg)](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-to-host-a-successful-board-meeting) ## [How to "Host" a Successful Board Meeting](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-to-host-a-successful-board-meeting) Posted by [Natalie Hanlon](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/natalie-hanlon) on Jun 29, 2016, 11:36:31 AM The board meeting was only at the 30-minute mark, but eyes were already starting to droop. The AC was out, and the small fans whirred in the background like a white noise machine. Prior to the meeting, board members were treated to a 4-course lunch, and the rich food was adding to the sleepiness.... [more](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/how-to-host-a-successful-board-meeting) Topics: [Meetings](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/topic/meetings) [![child-blog-image.png](https://blog.boardsource.org/hubfs/child-blog-image.png)](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/a-childs-view-of-nonprofit-board-culture) ## [A Child's View of Nonprofit Board Culture](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/a-childs-view-of-nonprofit-board-culture) Posted by [Liz Wooten Reschke](https://blog.boardsource.org/blog/author/liz-wooten-reschke) on Jun 9, 2016, 8:30:00 AM As both a mom and a consultant in the nonprofit sector, I often wonder what my world looks like to my two young children, who currently understand very little about what “mommy does.” What, for example, might they conclude about board culture if they were to venture with me into a nonprofit... 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