Discover The Solution to Your Biggest Performance Challenge as a NonProfit Board
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Even if you think your nonprofit or association is doing fine, there's a unique surprise revealed that shows that you might just have some blindspots.
Personalized Video Tutorials to Most Common NonProfit Board Challenges
Experience what it's like to be on a board that excels at governance and gets stuff done...
✔Learn how to recruit better for your board: Want a more effective board? It starts with finding the right committed people who understand their role.
✔Stop filling your board with "warm bodies"!: There are competent and dedicated people out there willing to serve on nonprofit boards. Learn with with just a few easy steps on how you can up your board's performance with some basic policies and procedures regardless of whether your non-profit is a charity, board of trade, association, foundation - large or small.
✔Know the difference in your role vs. the staff: Avoid missteps in the critical board vs. staff relationship. Learn where your role stops as a board member and your staff starts. After interviewing hundreds of nonprofit board members from all over, we've seen it all. These challenges are usually "fixable" in a few easy steps.
✔Know where & how to go into your next board meeting prepared: Relax! We've got you covered! You can set the wheels in motion for positive change without "upsetting the applecart". Be the positive change agent without coming off as the "know-it-all"!
✔Establish your road map to guiding your organization towards getting more done: Regardless of your organization's staff and budget size, there's a unique method you and your board can use to ensure your plans are followed up on.
✔Raise more money and members, establish your organization as the dominant player: Whether your designs on the future are bigger than your means or not everyone on your boards and committees are following through on commitments, these lessons can have you come away with concrete and actionable plans for truly making a difference as a nonprofit board member.
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Frequently Asked Questions:
❔My board experience is just fine. Why should I take the survey?
Hey! That's great that you're enjoying your experience as a board member. But, in our experience, we've yet to find a board where there's unanimity of opinion on the state of where things are at. Pass this site onto your colleagues, get their opinion. Match up your perceptions against theirs. You might be surprised how heading off challenges before they become bigger can save the organization.
❔Who's putting this site up and why?
The Society of NonProfit Board Directors is a virtual association of leaders from all around the world who volunteer their leadership skills on the boards of associations, charities, foundations, boards of trade, and nonprofit organizations of all types. We're committed to mentoring better nonprofit board leaders because stronger boards make for stronger nonprofits and a better society. To learn more about the Society, click here.
❔Our organization is different. Would these lessons really apply to us?
Believe it or not, we've seen nearly every combination of challenge or difficulty in both small and large not-for-profit organizations. Your mission and make up may be different but you all share something in common: a desire to make this a better world and coming together of volunteer leaders where consensus drives decisions. What have you got to lose? The assessment and end lesson are free!
