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5 Things Board Members Can Do To Build Organizations

August 26, 2009 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

I’ve discussed before how important boards of directors are to the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector. But I think they are particularly critical to overcoming the bias against nonprofit capacity.  Boards of directors are a largely untapped resource available to nonprofits.  If nonprofits could figure out how to tap into the expertise, networks, knowledge and […]

Overcoming the Bias Against Nonprofit Capacity

August 21, 2009 By Nell Edgington 11 Comments

It amazes me how much the funder, government, and even sometimes nonprofit leadership, bias against nonprofit capacity building holds the sector back. It seems like such a simple thing: in order to get more results you need to devote time, energy and resources to organization building.  In order to find the resources required to deliver […]

What About Boards?

June 18, 2009 By Nell Edgington 2 Comments

Key to the needed restructuring of the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors is significant change to nonprofit boards of directors.  Indeed, change at the board level can provide some significant improvement to the effectiveness of the sector. Too often board members are one of two things.  They are disengaged (bored, not invested, only in it to […]

The Critical Alignment of Mission, Money and Competence

March 11, 2009 By Nell Edgington 23 Comments

The struggles and challenges nonprofits face all come down to one key problem:  a misalignment of mission, money and core competencies. For any organization three things must be aligned:  1) their mission, or reason for existing 2) their core competencies–what they do better than anyone else in the world, and 3) their resource engine–all the ways […]

Ways to Raise Money in a Recession

November 3, 2008 By Nell Edgington 3 Comments

It’s a topic that’s on every nonprofit Executive Director, board, and staff member’s mind these days.  How can we possibly raise money when the economy is in such turmoil?  Well, there are ways.  Here are 10 to get you started: Harness Your Board.  Your board of directors ideally is a group of people who are […]

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