Tag: Bailey Leadership Initiative
Now a good time to plan, perform housekeeping
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
The themes of planning and change are frequent topics at this time of year. Whether it’s the start of...
Philanthropy makes good business sense
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
Running and managing a nonprofit is a challenging proposition because it’s a business model reliant, to a greater or...
The importance of determining a nonprofit’s competitive advantage
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
Running and managing a nonprofit has a lot of challenges, not the least of which is working with a...
The board and the budget
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
This is the time of year when many nonprofit boards develop their annual budgets. Managing an organization’s financial resources...
Orienting, engaging boards of directors
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
One of the responsibilities of a board of directors is to manage itself, ensuring that the board has the...
The unnatural focus on overhead costs in nonprofits
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
We’d never expect our public works departments to routinely repair our streets using shovels and wheelbarrows or our businesses...
Fundraising a fundamental board responsibility
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
The question I’m most frequently asked when working with nonprofit boards is, “do board members have to do fundraising?”
My...
Are you an engaged nonprofit board member?
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
One of the frequent concerns that I hear from nonprofit staff and board leaders is about board member engagement.
The...
Nonprofit board meetings need planning, discipline, reflection
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
Nonprofit organizations often struggle with meeting attendance, complaints about the length of board meetings and dysfunctional member behavior and...