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Relationship between board, chief executive critical to group
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
The relationship between the board and its chief executive is critical to the health of the organization. Ideally, this...
Performing an assessment
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
Most nonprofit organizations recognize that strengthening and building their organizational capacity enhances their programs and increases the impact of...
Succession planning: Ensuring continuity during leadership changes
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
Developing a succession plan for an organization is a basic risk management exercise, yet many nonprofits have not taken...
Defining the role of the board chair
By Regenia Bailey / Guest Editorial
High-functioning organizations have strong co-leadership between the executive director who oversees the management of the organization and the board...
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...