These resources offer tips, guides, samples, and case studies to aid organizations in effective succession planning and executive transitions.
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Your organization might be wondering how to get involved in elections. It's important to understand what types of election-related activities you can and can't do, as detailed in this excerpt Common Ground.
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Tips in 13 Ways To Create Good Luck in the Legislature can help you succeed in any state legislative session. You can use the same principles with local elected officials, too.
© 2011 North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Inc. From Common Ground, a publication of the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, www.ncnonprofits.org.
- Who’s responsible for which kinds of oversight? The Board of Directors has overall legal responsibility for the financial health of your nonprofit. Board members need to understand key financial information and policies, and it’s recommended that they look at the following reports at least quarterly: Fiscal year budget (with comparisons to actual expenditures/revenue). Profit and loss statement (including programs).
Sabbaticals can be a win-win for your organization and everyone in it. Sabbaticals Help Keep Good Executives offers lessons and advice from nonprofit leaders who have taken sabbaticals. (North Carolina Center for Nonprofits)
Minutes of board meetings sometimes seem so routine that people underestimate their importance. This article includes what many consider important elements for board minutes.
Everyone agrees – well-led organizations do more good in the world than organizations that aren't well-led. But what about leadership change, how does that fit into the picture? Executive Transition: Trauma or Transformation? (©2011 Common Ground, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits) will give you practices that reduce risk and boost positive change, even transformation, during transition.
The job of the nonprofit executive is one of the most rewarding. It's also among the most challenging, requiring a deep passion for the work and the ability to juggle competing demands, sustain multiple relationships, and manage a very possibly under-resourced infrastructure. Failed executive transitions often cause repeated executive turnover, loss of organizational focus and momentum, and extended periods of underperformance. This resource outlines how to approach executive transitions intentionally and mitigate these negative outcomes.
This question raises the blood pressure of many executive directors, and opinions are sharply divided, but what is the answer? See what Jan Masaoka, publisher of Blue Avocado and CEO of CalNonprofits, has to say on the topic.
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Very often, board members reach their term limits and leave feeling good about their contributions. But that is not always the case. Learn how to step away from a difficult role leaving both yourself and the organization with a positive experience using the tips in this resource.
© North Carolina Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Inc. From Common Ground, a publication of the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, www.ncnonprofits.org.