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Board of Director’s Role: What Exactly Should Your Board Be Doing?

Board of Director’s Role: What Exactly Should Your Board Be Doing?

by go-web-support | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog, Board Development, Governance, Leadership

Do you know the Board of Director’s Role for Your Nonprofit?  The board of director’s role in an organization can make or break it. Individual directors (and boards as a whole), play key roles in the success of a nonprofit agency. Yet two of the most...
12 Biggest Board Meeting Myths – Exposed

12 Biggest Board Meeting Myths – Exposed

by Tom Okarma | Oct 27, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Board Meetings, Leadership

How to Make Your Board Meetings… BETTER. Sometimes, being a leader feels like you are out in front of a marching band, with everyone smiling and marching closely behind you, in lock step to your tempo. One tight team all in sync. It is a beautiful thing. But...
Is Your Board a Little Too Close for Comfort?

Is Your Board a Little Too Close for Comfort?

by Tom Okarma | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Board Meetings, Governance, Leadership

Most nonprofit board of directors fall into two categories —  Governance boards and Working boards. Both have important responsibilities. Either can be necessary at times.  They can each can be the perfect board for a nonprofit, based on the agency’s characteristics,...
Is Your Board Going Bad? 8 Things You Need to Know…

Is Your Board Going Bad? 8 Things You Need to Know…

by go-web-support | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Board Meetings, Governance, Leadership

You’re likely a nonprofit leader, an executive director, maybe a board chair. At minimum, you’re probably on the board. You’ve helped to lead your agency for a long time and things have gone well, other than the periodic crisis you’ve had to...
10 Ways to Have Better Board Meetings

10 Ways to Have Better Board Meetings

by Tom Okarma | Apr 26, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Leadership

Anyone who has served on a nonprofit board, will know this feeling all too well. We’ve all been there… suffering through a board meeting that makes a root canal seem like a night on the town. Whatever the reason, too many board meetings feel like a waste of time with...
15 Simple Ways to Use Your Board For Marketing

15 Simple Ways to Use Your Board For Marketing

by Tom Okarma | Apr 20, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Featured, Fundraising, Marketing

Nonprofit marketing can be challenging at best. If you’re like most agencies, you’re constantly on the look out for new ways to share your mission, more effective ways to build awareness, and new cost-effective avenues to get more people to help your cause....
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