Board members can be wonderful assets for your team and your organization, or they can be burdenous anchors, pulling you (and the rest of your team) down. If your nonprofit becomes poisoned by a truly toxic board member -- and you’ve tried using carrots to no avail (see the end of this post) -- it’s probably time to cut ties. Why Board … [Read more...]
Difficult Nonprofit Board? 5 Ways to Evoke Full Cooperation
There’s a popular sentiment shared by many fundraisers: Managing a nonprofit board is a lot like herding cats. In other words, it can feel like a completely frustrating and unmanageable task. If you're frustrated with your board as a whole, with individual board members, or their inability to fundraise, you're not alone. Many … [Read more...]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Nonprofit Leadership
If you’ve ever heard me speak before, you know how passionate I am about fundraising and nonprofit leadership. My “no-nonsense” attitude comes across loud and clear about board members’ roles and responsibilities with regard to giving, as well as the Executive Director’s important role in fundraising. The following might seem more like a … [Read more...]
8 Ways Your Board Can Fundraise Without Asking
Can you guess the number one complaint I hear from Executive Directors and Development Directors? Their top complaint is that their board members do not help with fundraising. How about you? Do you have board members who just won’t fundraise? If yes, the question is, why...? Have you included fundraising as part of their board member … [Read more...]
Managing Up, Down, and Sideways: 3 Ways to Lead a Fundraising Team
As a development director, you may be in the uncomfortable position of managing up, down, and sideways. It takes a lot of effort to get everyone rowing in the same direction when it comes to fundraising. After all, fundraising is a team sport -- or, at least, it should be. Unfortunately, many people on nonprofit leadership teams try to … [Read more...]
Nonprofit Board Retreat on Zoom? 3 Must-Have Agenda Items
If you haven’t had a board retreat yet this year, this post is for you! That’s because every nonprofit board should have an annual retreat. And this year is no exception. If anything, a board retreat is more critical than ever as we begin to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Board Retreat Agenda Items for Zoom There are three … [Read more...]
The #1 Secret to Get Board Members to Help with Fundraising
Later today I’m giving a webinar called How to Get Board Members to Help with Fundraising in 15 Minutes per Month. It’s a talk I’ve given many times before and it’s always been popular. Yesterday I received a notice from the host saying that it broke their webinar records for the most registrations ever. I don’t share that to brag -- … [Read more...]
A 3-Step Approach to Teach Board Members How to Ask for Money
Have you ever wondered how to teach your board members to ask for money? It’s one of the questions I get asked most frequently. The problem is, that’s the wrong question to ask. The right question is this: How Do You Get Board Members to Value Helping with Fundraising? There are two important points in that second question. 1. … [Read more...]
Board Management During COVID-19: 5 Tips to Keep Up Momentum
The following is a guest post from Jeb Banner, the founder and CEO of Boardable, a nonprofit board management software provider. Jeb is also the founder of two nonprofits, The Speak Easy and Musical Family Tree, as well as a board member of United Way of Central Indiana and ProAct. The pandemic has transformed many activities in the … [Read more...]
7 Volunteers You DON’T Want Serving on Your Nonprofit Board
When a nonprofit leader (generally a development director or CEO/ED) contacts me about fundraising, some of the first questions I ask are about their board members. They include: Do all of your board members give an annual gift? Are they generous with their time, resources, and connections? Do your board members have capacity, networks … [Read more...]
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