Ever wonder why some nonprofits seem to always have great boards while others consistently flounder? Stellar boards don’t just happen by accident. It takes lots of planning, relationship building, and training. If you diligently follow these few best practices you, too, can build a superb board.

Having a clear plan, a strong team and re-energized commitment will ensure your organization’s fundraising success in the new year.

It’s all about choices—that’s what we tell the kids at PAL. These kids are looking at colleges and are making good choices even though they come from poor families. They get tutored, they go camping, and they are making right choices in spite of what they see around them. They realize a life of crime doesn’t have to be their destiny. Every nonprofit can look for ways to help our young people make good choices.

For next year, let’s break that failed resolution cycle! Let’s set our yearly leadership development goals and put some best practices in place to help us achieve those goals.

Our extremely successful, yet compassionate, Chief of Police, Camerino Sanchez, adamantly declares that we will never be successful in completely eradicating homelessness. But we must be faithful every day in trying to save all we can.

Ever wonder how your nonprofit can attract and keep Millennials as donors and volunteers? This article will provide guidelines for enticing, engaging, and keeping Millennial donors and volunteers for your nonprofit.

The future is here—don’t get left behind. Your nonprofit likely wants to attract donors, retain employees, and recruit volunteers. Right? That means you need a clear plan for enticing, engaging, and keeping Millennials.

Financial oversight is one of the most critical responsibilities of a nonprofit board of directors, yet many boards fall short of optimum performance in this area. Read this article to learn about the power of financial dashboards.

With sustainability as the focus, nonprofit staff and boards can and should consider a whole range of circumstances related to transitions of leadership that create risks to the mission.

Ever wonder why some organizations seem to always come up with clever ideas for achieving their mission? Do you find yourself wishing you had one of those “creative types” on your staff so your nonprofit could find ways to work smarter not harder? Would you be surprised to know that encouraging this type of innovation in your group merely takes discipline?