Researching for Nonprofit Board Prospects
December 18, 2015
Recruiting the right board members is critical to a nonprofit’s success. However finding prospects who are a good match is difficult for many organizations.
Welcome to Hardy Smith’s blog, where he shares experience and insight learned through decades in the corporate world and advocating on behalf of nonprofits and associations across America.
Hardy’s mission is to help maximize the performance of nonprofits and associations and their essential leadership teams.
If you’re seeking to triumph over communication challenges, bring meaningful and manageable solutions to, and realize measurable results of your organization, this blog will give you more than ideas — it will maximize your team’s performance like never before.
Recruiting the right board members is critical to a nonprofit’s success. However finding prospects who are a good match is difficult for many organizations.
Nonprofit leaders know that collaboration can be beneficial. When they decide to form a cooperative working relationship with another organization (or other organizations), they can discover extraordinary innovations to conquer shared challenges.
When someone declines an invitation to join a nonprofit board, it could be for more reasons than the organization might assume.
Every day dedicated nonprofit professionals are working to help those who have suffered misfortune, aiding victims in need of care, and finding solutions to someone else’s problems.
The symptoms of my health scare were low energy and being constantly tired. The cause was an artery with 99 percent blockage. The correction was insertion of a stent. The results: amazing. This experience has helped me see the parallels between a heart’s relationship with the body and a board’s relationship with the nonprofit it supports.
Leaders are looking for new ideas and solutions to difficult challenges. However, identifying innovative answers can be challenging. Just telling an organization to solve its problems by thinking outside the box isn’t especially helpful. What does that really mean?
A wordy or vague mission statement offers no sense of identity and no clear direction for the organization to follow. Here’s a quick test to evaluate how effective your mission statement is: Can you repeat yours right now?
Despite having a worthwhile purpose, groups often fail to generate the publicity results they desire because they don’t think strategically.
Regardless of how large or small a challenge is, putting off taking action only makes the situation worse. Here are five action suggestions for addressing an issue your organization may be facing…
What are the consequences of choosing to ignore imminent dangers? Nonprofits should heed the warnings being given.
Recruiting the right board members is critical to a nonprofit’s success. However finding prospects who are a good match is difficult for many organizations.
Nonprofit leaders know that collaboration can be beneficial. When they decide to form a cooperative working relationship with another organization (or other organizations), they can discover extraordinary innovations to conquer shared challenges.
When someone declines an invitation to join a nonprofit board, it could be for more reasons than the organization might assume.
Every day dedicated nonprofit professionals are working to help those who have suffered misfortune, aiding victims in need of care, and finding solutions to someone else’s problems.
The symptoms of my health scare were low energy and being constantly tired. The cause was an artery with 99 percent blockage. The correction was insertion of a stent. The results: amazing. This experience has helped me see the parallels between a heart’s relationship with the body and a board’s relationship with the nonprofit it supports.
Leaders are looking for new ideas and solutions to difficult challenges. However, identifying innovative answers can be challenging. Just telling an organization to solve its problems by thinking outside the box isn’t especially helpful. What does that really mean?
A wordy or vague mission statement offers no sense of identity and no clear direction for the organization to follow. Here’s a quick test to evaluate how effective your mission statement is: Can you repeat yours right now?
Despite having a worthwhile purpose, groups often fail to generate the publicity results they desire because they don’t think strategically.
Regardless of how large or small a challenge is, putting off taking action only makes the situation worse. Here are five action suggestions for addressing an issue your organization may be facing…
What are the consequences of choosing to ignore imminent dangers? Nonprofits should heed the warnings being given.
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