Archive for the ‘Nonprofit Board Development’ Category

Facilitating a High Performing Board

. Recently, I have been working on several different projects that involve nonprofit board development issues ranging from staffing a board, to recruiting board members, and improving the effectiveness of boards.  My recent work has led me to filter my experience through a review of the literature on the characteristics of ...Read More

Facilitating a Capacity Building Process

. The economic downturn that occurred in the last couple of years has been unquestionably harsh on most nonprofit agencies.  The increases in service demand, coupled with the decreases in revenues have created organizational strains and fractures that will linger for years to come.  If there is any silver lining to ...Read More

Facilitating a Nonprofit Board Orientation

. I recently helped out on a board member orientation workshop  for a nonprofit agency and thought I would share some perspectives on nonprofit board development while the ideas are fairly fresh on my mind.  Over the last few months I have been occasionally posting what has become an informal series ...Read More

Advancing Capacity of Organizations: A Strategic Conversation

. In one of the early posts to this blog I offered a taxonomy to help nonprofits think about organizational capacity, resource development planning and fundraising.  In that post I described capacity development as the practice of developing and maintaining staff skills, organizational systems and intellectual and physical resources required to ...Read More