Leadership
Building Better Boards
Looking at a board through the lens of colonization can increase its effectiveness and improve board culture.
Tag: Boards
Excerpt
Business
Changing Boards for a Changing World
An excerpt from How Boards Work on how boards can reform to meet the moment.
Leadership
Leading Boards in a Virtual World
Thirteen ideas to keep boards effective and cohesive in a remote environment.
Nonprofits & NGOs
The Four Principles of Purpose-Driven Board Leadership
In the face of increasingly pressing systemic inequities, nonprofit boards must change the traditional ways they have worked and instead prioritize an organization's purpose, show respect for the ecosystem in which they operate, commit to equity, and recognize that power must be authorized by the people they're aiming to help.
Business
Boycotts and Corporate Boards
Social movement boycotts increase board turnover, especially when board members are sympathetic to the cause at issue.
Philanthropy & Funding
Philanthropy Must Not Support Hate
Commercial national charities and community foundations should refuse requests by donor-advisors to give to hate groups.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Spotting and Fixing Dysfunctional Nonprofit Boards
Micromanaging, rubber stamp, and Balkanized nonprofit boards of directors are more common than not, and turning them into high-functioning governing bodies requires being on the alert for six warning signs.
Leadership
A Funder’s Learnings on Nonprofit Founder Transitions
The departure of a nonprofit founder can be a moment of opportunity, but only when funders, the board, and the outgoing leader steward it well.
Leadership
How to Be a Super Board Chair
Nine super tactics and one superpower board chairs can use to make the most of the board experience and prime their organizations for success.
Philanthropy & Funding
Solving the Mystery of Board Engagement and Fundraising
Nonprofit boards still have a long way to go in engaging their board members to improve fundraising.