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Governance

How Often Should Your Board Meet?

At a baseline, your board needs to meet with sufficient frequency to adequately carry out your basic fiduciary and governance duties.  This includes hiring the CEO and monitoring the CEO’s performance, creating a vision and direction for the nonprofit, setting goals and monitoring their progress, developing policies and procedures, ensuring sufficient financial resources, and generally safeguarding the organization and its mission.

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Governance

Role of the Nonprofit Board

For a nonprofit organization to succeed, it must have a high functioning Board. While management deals with the day to day operations (planning, organizing and executing the organization’s programs), the Board of Directors provides oversight over the organization’s management, finances, mission, and strategic goals.

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Governance

How to Use Nonprofit Advisory Boards

Nonprofit advisory boards are groups of talented, experienced, wealthy, or otherwise influential individuals who are invited to provide ongoing advice and support to a nonprofit’s

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