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What nonprofit boards should generally include include and exclude from their meeting minutes and how those minutes should be maintained.

Guidelines to consider when developing your organization's particular approach to board training.

Ambassador charts encourage board participation and highlights individual board members' efforts.

Resources on what advisory board are, why they matter, and how to get them off the ground.

Helping your organization transition during executive succession when you've decided to move on.

Be sure each Board Member is clear on their duties via an agreement modeled after contracts.

Sample request for proposal for property and liability risk management and insurance consulting services.

As social entrepreneurs around the world create new organizations to solve emerging public problems, they do so drawing on a broad range of organizational forms, ranging from the traditional nonprofit form to the classic business corporate form.

Some assumptions about nonprofits are like urban legends. Like the legendary alligators in New York City sewers, these stories have gained credibility through their longevity. This article includes several popular myths about nonprofits.

Innovation Network provides program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and web-based tools to nonprofits and funders across geographic and programmatic boundaries. The organization works to make evaluation accessible to all nonprofits, so they have the knowledge and skills to manage and improve their work. 

Guide for designing and implementing a system to provide donors with timely and meaningful thank yous and acknowledgments.

A short guide to help you create efficacious donor thank yous.

TechSoup guide on how to establish and navigate your relationship with a technology consultant.

All boards (even the most organized, responsible, and congenial ones) need to document their activities, internal rules, and processes. Some of the documentation is legally required; some is simply helpful to have. Some documents are public; some must be kept confidential. Some serve as guidelines for decisions; some are part of the record keeping. For a board that takes its fiduciary role seriously — and they all should — written rules and documentation of activities are simply part of ongoing, everyday risk management.

This document serves as a sample for constructing bylaws.