by Tom Okarma | Feb 22, 2018 | Blog, Board Development, Governance, Leadership
Leading Nonprofit Board Members Is Not Always Easy Sooner or later, every nonprofit leader has a problem with a board member. How this issue is dealt with separates the successful leaders from the rest of the pack. You may find certain nonprofit board members are...
by Tom Okarma | Jan 10, 2018 | Blog, Governance, Leadership
Once I became a leader, it did not take long to understand just how powerful, yet simultaneously powerless, I was to impact the future. On one hand, I led an organization of 350 people and was responsible to see that we were headed in the right direction. On the other...
by Tom Okarma | Nov 23, 2017 | Blog, Governance, Leadership
Challenge #4: Avoiding Mission Drift Every nonprofit organization started out with a mission. We all want to affect meaningful change and make a difference in the world. But sometimes, the stresses of working for a multi-faceted organization with many moving parts,...
by ingauge | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog, Board Development, Governance, Leadership
Do you know the Board of Directors Role for Your Nonprofit? The board of directors role in an organization can make or break it. Many will agree that individual directors and boards as a whole, play key roles in the success of a nonprofit agency. And yet two of the...
by Tom Okarma | Oct 18, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Board Meetings, Governance, Leadership
Most nonprofit board of directors fall into two categories — Governance boards and Working boards. Both have important responsibilities. Either can be necessary at times. They can each can be the perfect board for a nonprofit, based on the agency’s characteristics,...
by ingauge | Oct 11, 2016 | Blog, Board Development, Board Meetings, Governance, Leadership
You’re likely a nonprofit leader, an executive director, maybe a board chair. At minimum, you’re probably on the board. You’ve helped to lead your agency for a long time and things have gone well, other than the periodic crisis you’ve had to...