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Very often, board members reach their term limits and leave feeling good about their contributions. But that is not always the case. Learn how to step away from a difficult role leaving both yourself and the organization with a positive experience using the tips in this resource.
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On paper, nonprofit boards and CEOs are required to work together. Yet instead of making sweet music to the upbeat tempo of a nonprofit's mission, many nonprofit boards find themselves working at odds with the CEO they hired.
It can be difficult to separate from an organization that you're joined to at the hip. Read the experience of Eliot Pfanstiehl, CEO and former president of Strathmore, and how his sabbatical not only changed him, but his organization as well.
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Read these tips on creating a smooth executive transition from a group of nonprofit CEOs and board leaders.
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This article shares twelve ideas to help get the new executive director started on a path to success. (Blue Avocado)
Twelve Ways to Get a New Executive Director Off on the Right Foot
The article, Where to Start? Priorities for a New Director, shares lessons learned about how a new executive can get off to a positive start. (North Carolina Center for Nonprofits)
Research suggests that a skilled interim executive director (ED) helps nonprofits to emerge stronger, more fiscally sound, and with higher levels of optimism. Learn how an interim ED can lay the groundwork for the next leader's success.
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To show the effectiveness of their programs, nonprofits are asked to evaluate and assess them. W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Logic Model Development Guide provides practical assistance to the underlying principles of "logic modeling" so nonprofit staff and community members can enhance their program planning, implementation, and dissemination.
W.K. Kellogg Foundation's 2017 Step-by-Step Guide to Evaluation: How to Become Savvy Evaluation Consumers provides a framework for evaluation as a useful program tool for grantees, nonprofits, and community leaders. "The original handbook provides a framework for thinking about evaluation as a relevant and useful program tool.
As the Baby Boomers edge into their 50s and 60s, nonprofit organizations will soon be making room for a new generation of leaders. Not only should organizations consider the generational differences that will impact leadership styles, but also consider that members of Generation X, now in their 20s and 30s, are a dramatically smaller group than the Baby Boom generation. Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations (The Annie E.