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Renew Enthusiasm

Corporations may not be people, but nonprofits fundamentally are. Everyone involved with your organization cares about your cause. But are y...

Nonprofit staffs and boards are mission-driven. It can be tempting, when encountering a compelling issue related to your cause, to take on a...

With the passing of Labor Day 2012 we'll be ready to launch the fall season of our free weekly professional development webinars for sta...

In recent years there has been a lot of talk in the funding community about reducing overhead expenses of nonprofits by eliminating redundan...

An informed consensus around mission and the strategic pursuit of it is essential to the effectiveness of a nonprofit. In some areas, howeve...

Critical Issues #14: Managing Change will be out tomorrow. One important moment of change in a nonprofit is the transition of an organizati...

The SWOT (Strengths Weaknesses Opportunities Threats) exercise is a stock feature of strategic planning processes. Over 100 comments in a re...

January 25, 2012 governance

We’re getting ready for today’s webinar on Nonprofit Boards and Effective Governance . Here are some links to other thoughts on governance, ...

NonprofitWebinars is launching its winter 2011 season of free professional development webinars for nonprofit trustees and staff with some n...

I first encountered the term “no brainer” as a corporate manager. Since I had arrived in the corporate world from academia, I was not very g...

The summer schedule of Wednesday Webinars is just about complete. The first half of the year saw a great start to the program, with over 300...

February 01, 2010 governance nonprofit

The trustee handbook—or board manual—is an essential document for the sustainable nonprofit. After a brief description of its contents, we’l...

As noted in Critical Issues #4: On Boards , the Individual Service Plan (ISP) is a simple but powerful tool to focus the capabilities of tru...

I mentioned board self assessments in two of my Critical Issues e-letters ( The Secret Life of Surveys and On Board ), and promised a bit ...