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Hospice Board Chair, Erik Barner, explains how a new, more comprehensive and qualitative dashboard has really helped facilitate dialogue among their Board of Directors.

Did you know? The CEO accounts for 60 percent of the organization’s success. Here we share more specific ways your board can support and grow your charity’s leader.

Perhaps no regional charity has embodied living as pioneers more than Jamestown-based Anne Carlsen Center, which now more than 4,000 individuals and families.

Having the right CEO accounts for most of the variance among the nonprofits that ultimately succeed and those that fail — about 60% according to some research.

Boards have three fiduciary responsibilities: Duty of obedience, duty of loyalty, and duty of care. Most boards are not aware of the time spent on administrative matters.

One way we prefer to stimulate bold thinking is what we call the TIME Magazine exercise. You can fit this into your next board meeting to engage your directors.

People will work hard to deliver what’s expected of them. And when board members and CEOs are given the green light to dream big dreams, they’ll do it.

Dan Jacobson has joined the Impact faculty as its resident boards expert, bringing a wealth of experience serving on and leading nonprofit boards.

A practical way to activate your board is to ask them to serve on a short-term committee where they’re responsible for activating their own networks.

While overseeing organizational details is important and cannot be overlooked, most successful organizations spend the majority of their time on the I-M-P-A-C.