ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. Through surveying chief executive officers from all 50 states, BoardSource reported the following key findings: Increased attendance at board meetings, with 88% of respondents reporting 75% or higher attendance.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2015

BoardSource, the country’s leading nonprofit governance consultants, provides some great advice in this week’s guest post. Thanks BoardSource! Or a board can complete (as BoardSource recommends) a full self-assessment every two to three years and benchmark against its own performance over time. Be positive.

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Bloomerang

MAY 28, 2021

She’s the host of the podcast “Let’s Take This Offline,” an adjunct professor at Baruch College, a Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), a BoardSource Certified Governance Trainer (CGT), A Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and an AFP Master Trainer.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

BoardSource President & CEO Anne Wallestad and Director of Education Andy Davis join the podcast today to talk about diversified fundraising and metrics for fundraising success. Listen Now: Resources: Anne Wallestad , President and Chief Executive Officer, BoardSource. Andy Davis , Director of Education, BoardSource.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 6, 2015

As many boards are not ready for a CEO departure, we asked our friends at BoardSource, the country’s leading nonprofit governance consultants, for their advice on how to be ready. Thanks for the terrific tips BoardSource! CEO Transition – Are you Ready for the Inevitable? I encourage you to get started today.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 24, 2015

Earlier this year BoardSource asked nonprofit CEOs to rate their boards. This week’s guest blogger Anne Wallestead, Executive Director of Boardsource, shares all the details on where we are and how to change where we are going. . This post originally appeared on Boardsource’s Exceptional Boards blog. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

This assessment is based on the qualities of strong boards from Boardsource and our commitment to equity on boards. In order to learn more about what the board or staff members need, we customarily include a board assessment or survey and conduct discovery interviews as part of the retreat planning process. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Governing bodies studied by BoardSource in 2019 included a higher percentage of people of color than the previous study — 22% in 2019 versus 16% in 2017. For example, 80% of respondents said their organization’s board of directors was diverse.

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BoardAssist

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Its time to stop coming up with excuses, according to BoardSource’s CEO Anne Wallestead , our guest blogger this week, and start making your board healthy. BoardSource offers tools for both nonprofit board and CEO assessments if you need help. Thanks for your wisdom and advice Anne! And what are we willing to do about it?

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 18, 2017

Anne Wallestad , BoardSource, Chapter 2: Board of Directors. Anne Wallestad, BoardSource, Chapter 2: Board of Directors. “Building a culture of philanthropy starts by cultivating the understanding that fundraising is core to your organization’s ability to fulfill its mission.”. When beliefs change, culture changes.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2018

Write it down: BoardSource reports that only 27 percent of all organizations have a written executive succession plan. The team has poured their hearts and souls into setting goals, developing strategies, and recruiting staff and volunteers, only to have all that work potentially go to waste when a leader leaves the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. Photo by Idea Constructor. The presentation is here.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2012

“There is no question that orienting new board members to their responsibilities, especially around fundraising, is critical,” says Linda Crompton, BoardSource President and CEO.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

She is also BoardSource certified, which has given her greater insight into how nonprofit boards can best support their organizations. She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients. We’ve all been there.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

She is also BoardSource certified, which has given her greater insight into how nonprofit boards can best support their organizations. She has tremendous knowledge on managing the day-to-day challenges of fundraising and enjoys facilitating the decision-making process with clients.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

Information about essential board leadership practices (in partnership with BoardSource). Diversity information of nonprofits, their employees, and their boards (in partnership with D5 and Green 2.0). It’s simple. Increasing the depth and clarity of nonprofit data increases the quality of decisions in the nonprofit sector.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2016

Or take BoardSource, which has helped thousands of nonprofits improve their board governance. We ask them to consider dedicating at least 1 percent of their grantmaking budgets to strengthening the sector. Take VolunteerMatch, for example.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Anne Wallestad, CEO of BoardSource , explored that specific question for the Huffington Post in her article, “ Are Nonprofit Boards Really Necessary? It sounds tempting to not have a board, right? But it’s a two-way street; keep in mind that it’s not always an easy job for the board of directors to work with nonprofit staff.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 30, 2018

Here to tell us more about how to excel if you are tapped to run your board’s fundraising campaign is guest blogger Angela White – who originally published this post on the terrific BoardSource website. . Preparing Your Nonprofit Board for a Fundraising Campaign.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2019

At BoardSource, we understand there are real risks to underinvesting in fundraising, including the possibility of becoming overdependent on a small number of donors. In pure dollars, this meant that $4.695 billion new (or increased) dollars were raised to help cover the $4.264 billion lost due to donor attrition. [1]

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

A Certified Governance Trainer through BoardSource as well as a Credentialed Coach and Senior Professional in Human Resources, Karen has worked in the nonprofit sector for 12 years and has over 20 years of leadership experience.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

At BoardSource, we understand there are real risks to underinvesting in fundraising, including the possibility of becoming overdependent on a small number of donors. In pure dollars, this meant that $4.695 billion new (or increased) dollars were raised to help cover the $4.264 billion lost due to donor attrition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Boardsource Leadership Conference, Governing the Networked Nonprofit in an Age of Social Media on November 11th. Tech@State on November 4th at Noon in Washington, DC – Keynote presentation with Mark Horvath on Working With Free Agents. National Summer Learning Association – Networked Nonprofit Workshop on November 9th.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2017

Anne Wallestad, CEO, BoardSource. Cheryl Contee , CEO, Fission Strategy , and Co-Founder, Attentive.ly. Katrina VanHuss, CEO, Turnkey. Beth Kanter, Master Trainer, Author, and Blogger, Beth’s Blog. Russell Pomeranz, President & CEO, Claverack Advisory Group. Wendy Watson-Hallowell, The Belief Coach, Belief Works.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

According to a 2021 report from BoardSource , almost half (49%) of nonprofit executives feel that they do not have the right board members to “establish trust with the communities they serve.” Having a strong, engaged board is one of the most underappreciated keys to nonprofit success–but building one is no easy task.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

According to BoardSource , one of the ten basic responsibilities of non-profit boards is to, “Ensure adequate resources. Barbara Talisman, Pursuant. One of the board's foremost responsibilities is to secure adequate resources for the organization to fulfill its mission.”

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

It went live on January 20, 2016 with a significant upgrade after working for a year in collaboration with BoardSource , BBB Wise Giving Alliance , the D5 Coalition , and Independent Sector. GuideStar has made a big step towards its 2020 strategic goal to provide a much more detailed picture of each organization's charitable work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 16, 2013

However, the 2010 BoardSource NonProfit Governance report tells us that the number of nonprofit board members under the age of 30 has not changed in more than eight years. More than 71% of nonprofit board members are over 50 years old.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 3, 2007

PRESS RELEASENew Tool Keeps Board Members on Right Side of Tracks: "New Tool Keeps Board Members on Right Side of Tracks WASHINGTON, April 3 /PRNewswire/ BoardSource, the national voice of nonprofit governance, released The Nonprofit Dashboard: A Tool for Tracking Progress, written by Lawrence M.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

However, Independent Sector and BoardSource recommend that nonprofits voluntarily incorporate certain other provisions of the Act that make good governance sense. Two of several requirements were binding upon most corporations and nonprofits. These require policies covering whistle-blower protections and document preservation.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

BoardSource Leadership Forum. BoardSource Leadership Forum. BoardSource / Seattle, WA / $950. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. Nonprofit Management / @BoardSource. A million ideas. Fundraising & Grants.

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Achieve

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

She has contributed to publications of BoardSource and The Governance Institute, as well as the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and The Giving Institute. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And so what we’ve seen according to BoardSource, and I really think this is important when we think about setting up our boards for success. So over the summer, BoardSource published a really excellent report called “Leading with Intent: Reviewing the State of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on Nonprofit Boards.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 11, 2023

BoardSource has special guidance about consent agendas which you can read here. Nonprofits should consult legal counsel to ensure their consent agenda complies with any legal or regulatory requirements. Here’s a list of what’s required in each state. What makes consent agendas so powerful?

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

She has contributed to publications of BoardSource and The Governance Institute, as well as the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and The Giving Institute. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

She has contributed to publications of BoardSource and The Governance Institute, as well as the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and The Giving Institute. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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Achieve

JANUARY 31, 2022

She has contributed to publications of BoardSource and The Governance Institute, as well as the Toledo Chamber of Commerce and The Giving Institute. She is regularly sought for comment by trade and mainstream media, including the Chronicle of Philanthropy and U.S. News & World Report.

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