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Nancy Barnes-Smith, who writes for the Las Cruces Sun News and runs Nonprofit Support and Success, LLC, gives tips on how to build a better nonprofit board.
Barnes-Smith notes that usually, misunderstandings and confusion about roles and responsibilities seems to be a common theme in nonprofit management. The solution: create a quality board development.
Barnes-Smith explains that board development is a year round process that includes recruitment, orientation/training and evaluation. Good boards "take thought, planning and a commitment to board development. Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the board will help to develop a list of the traits and skills needed to start building a quality board."
Quality boards run a year-round board development, which includes ongoing training. This training is crucial in preparing and supporting boards in their role "as the stewards of the organization's mission and resources."
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A customized collection of grant news from foundations and the federal government from around the Web.
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Foundation: Community Foundation of Broward
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When Gladys Markus graduated from her accounting course at Nigeria's Plateau State University last year, she had one thing on her mind: Starting a food business. The then-22-year-old had been...more
"People used to go swimming in it, and then how grateful [they] are for the work that we're doing in conjunction with the government and other organizations," Mike Smith tells This Week in...more
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