Tag: nonprofit board development
Turning Board Members Into Board Development Champions
You might recall that a year or so ago, we posted two articles on the subject of board capacity building – what is popularly known as board development. Our March 25, 2021 post makes the case for launching formal board …
Board Chair Development Is a Fine Art at Tupelo’s Community Development Foundation
The landscape of nonprofit/public governance has changed dramatically in recent years. In my travels around the country these days, I’m increasingly encountering a new breed of volunteer taking the helm of nonprofit boards of all kinds of organizations, including economic …
Really Board-Savvy CEOs Know Enough To Avoid Recruiting Letterhead Board Members
Several posts at this blog have described what I call “insidious foes” of a solid board-CEO working relationship. These are erroneous assumptions about the nature of the governing function that can cause real damage. What makes them insidious is that …
Jeff Finkle: Master of the Nonprofit Governing Game
Since Jeff Finkle’s recent announcement of his impending retirement as the long-serving President/CEO of the International Economic Development Council, I’ve been reflecting on our work together on the governance improvement front over the past 26 years. In my professional opinion, …
Transforming the Clay County EDC Board Into a Governing Powerhouse
Early in my governance consulting career, I made a rookie mistake that taught me a valuable lesson that has served me well over the years. When the CEO of a chamber of commerce in the Southeastern US asked me to …
Solving the Board Development Puzzle: the How
Our readers might recall that the March 25 post at this blog dealt with two pieces of the board development puzzle: WHAT does board development mean? WHY is it critical that the CEO spearhead board development, wearing the Board Developer-in-Chief …
Enriching ACCE Board Composition on CEO Sheree Anne Kelly’s Watch
As our readers know, governing is essentially a people business. Far from being an abstract concept, governing boards are essentially the people serving on them, and governing is a low-tech, people-intensive “production” process requiring only minimal capital investment to make …
Clay County EDC’s JJ Harris: A Transformational Change Leader In Action
JJ Harris, President of the Clay County Economic Development Corporation in northeastern Florida and a member of this blog’s CEO Advisory Committee, is a prime example of a new breed of public/nonprofit chief executive officers I’m encountering with increasing frequency …
What, Me Afraid of a Big Board?
A little over four years ago, Jeff Finkle, President of the International Economic Development Council, and Virginia Jacko, President & CEO of the Miami Lighthouse for the Blind, recorded one of the all-time most popular podcasts for this blog. They …
Two Lynchpins of a High-Performing Board Committee Structure
While preparing for a four-hour Zoom work session a couple of weeks ago with the chief executive and executive team of a nonprofit economic development corporation, focusing on preparation for the launch of a new board committee structure, I reflected …
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