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5 Reasons Your Board Should Switch to Google Drive

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While a board’s priority is always governance, its members may also be the organization’s best spokespeople, fundraisers, volunteers, and technical experts. More importantly, moving to the cloud is a great way to demonstrate transparency, strengthen institutional memory, conserve resources, collaborate, and display tech-savvy.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

VQ Strategies

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. But there are also many that are, well, less so. Lessons from the Field.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

We structured this conference based on feedback from.orgCommunity’s fall Solutions Day participants. The Leadership ColLAB conference was an opportunity to bring professionals together around what we believe is a critical question. Our goal was to provide a great forum for networking and meaningful conversations.

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Research Friday: Government contracting in the new normal

ASU Lodestar Center

Particularly in the last several years, in the wake of the financial crisis, organizations have struggled with a variety of challenges related to government support. In the United States, we rely on government to provide key economic supports. consistent, structural challenges. embedded in government contracting.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

.orgSource

That trust building between our members and government officials continues today.” Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week. Building Trusting Relationships “During the pandemic, we saw the decline in trust of government agencies and officials,” Sharon observed.

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Executive Director Management: The Board’s Top 5 Responsibilities

Bloomerang

The board governance model is one of four primary nonprofit governance models. These organizations are structured to grant the power of governance to the board of directors and power of Executive Director management. An organization transitions into a “governing board” model when an ED is hired.

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Creating Financial Transparency with Your IRS 990 Series (and Maintaining Tax Compliance)

sgEngage

Based on the size and structure of your organization, you will be required to files one of the following 990 returns: Reinforcing Your Mission with Financial Transparency: Annual 990 returns don’t have to be a stressful annual chore. A 990 return is a snapshot of your organization’s financial health. and others.

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