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Learn the Four S’s of the CEO-Board Relationship

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.

Anne Carlsen Center: A Bold Dream Realized

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.

Can Your Board Afford Not to Support Their CEO?

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.

Own the Details,
Don’t Let Them Own You

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.

How Will You Become TIME’s “Nonprofit of the Year”?

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.

Make Multiplier Thinking the Rule in Your Organization

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.

Meet Your New Personal Board Coach

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

5 Force Multiplier
Takeaways

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.

Flip Your Focus
to I-M-P-A-C

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.

Three Ways to Communicate Courageously

Impact Boards set time to learn communication skills such as learning how to give and receive compliments, processing bad news, and resolving disagreements.

Drive Your Nonprofit Like a Corvette

By J. Patrick Traynor The following is excerpted from “Reimagining Board Service: A Practical Blueprint for Building a High Impact Board.” You can purchase a copy here. In any vehicle, there are approximately 30,000 interconnected parts — far too many for the average operator to understand. But to drive and maintain…

Four Steps to Better Board Planning

Some boards appoint a planning committee composed of three to six board members and staff, which is tasked with ensuring the organization has a defined approach to planning, goal-setting, and reporting of progress.

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