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For Positive Outcomes, Hold a Mirror Up to Board Performance

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Even with a friendly name like “feedback, check-in, or coaching,” a performance evaluation can be uncomfortable, or possibly downright scary. That’s probably why more organizations don’t have a process for evaluating the board of directors, or if they do, that assessment is not continuous. I’ll get on my Association 4.0

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The 10 roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors

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Every nonprofit has a Board of Directors. Some Executive Directors are a little unsure what their Board should be doing, but they’re pretty sure it’s more than what they’re doing now! Let’s look at the 10 basic roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit Board of Directors. And this is a problem. It’s surprising. And concerning.

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Beyond the Audit: 6 Best Practices to Build and Strengthen Your Relationship with Your Audit Firm

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The Audit Relationship: Then and Now Change management has not historically been an area where nonprofits consulted their auditor. Six Best Practices for a Stronger Audit Relationship Now, however, nonprofits and auditing firms are more likely to share and leverage their diverse experiences to better collaborate with one another.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation? Who decides what is measured?

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Taking a JEDI Approach

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This is the third article in a three-part series on finding the best consultant for your nonprofit. Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. Has your organization taken any small or significant steps towards making its position on JEDI practices clear?

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy, is our expert for guiding associations through tough markets. This methodology was used to evaluate expanding the American Board of Medical Specialties, ABMS CertLink®, platform into new markets. We consulted with experts within education from K-12 to advanced academics.

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Strengthening program evaluation in your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This call spurred the increasing demand for program evaluation. In your organization, this may look like negative attitudes toward evaluation, poor research designs and collecting data but not using the data. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity. The root problem here is poor evaluation capacity.