Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara Zoo and others tailor programs to reach new audiences and supporters

Creating a brilliant board meeting begins with trust, requires a savvy board chair, and needs a clear roadmap.

Ever feel like there is a secret behind getting your organization’s press releases published in local media outlets? Good news: You are about to learn the secret to getting your nonprofit's message published.

As a current board member of your favorite nonprofit, you can help them create a succession plan that includes keeping former board members close.

Executive directors should carefully evaluate the role they expect to play in development, the specific performance expectations they have of a development director and what they will do every day to nurture a thriving partnership with their development director.

The following three practices will help your nonprofit plan for and secure its future financially, programmatically, and organizationally.

There's one difference between organizations that are successful and those that flounder. It’s not who is on their board, or how much money they have in the bank, or even how well-known they are in the community. It’s whether they consistently follow a solid, functional strategic system faithfully throughout the year.

Successful nonprofit leaders know that the strategic planning process is just the beginning, laying the foundation for real action in real time.

Nothing communicates the importance of your nonprofit’s mission like a good story—not statistics, not strategic plans, not financial statements, not even your mission statement. It’s all about stories. Real life stories connect us emotionally, stirring our sense of possibility and yearning for purpose.

There are certainly many benefits to volunteering. The beauty of it all is that while you are helping others, you are also actually helping yourself.