Building a Nonprofit Board: A Beginners Guide on Who To Look For, How To Find Them, and How To Ensure Success

Building a Nonprofit Board: A Beginners Guide on Who To Look For, How To Find Them, and How To Ensure Success

Having a good board can provide many benefits for any non-profit organizations. Members of the board can be public facing part of an organization, provide networking opportunities, and their skills can be utilized in planning and strategic marketing. In order to build a board that is useful for your organization, you need to start by understanding what is it that you want out of that board. When assembling the team, ensure that members can worked together well and that their qualifications are complementary.

Key Takeaways:

  • Once you have asked someone if they would be interested in joining your board or once someone has expressed interest, it is time to have a formal discussion.
  • Once you have selected the individuals you want on your board, consider what you want them to do. Also, equally important, ask them what they want to do!
  • Aside from these standard roles, think about what else is needed from your board of directors? What communications roles need filling? What events do you host and who on the team could help?

“If you already have a good group of board members, think about asking them each for a contact that they believe could make a good addition to the team.”

Read more: https://bloomerang.co/blog/building-a-nonprofit-board-a-beginners-guide-on-who-to-look-for-how-to-find-them-and-how-to-ensure-success/

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2021-03-03T13:00:19-04:00March 3rd, 2021|Summaries|

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