Five Governance Hacks

At most hardware stores you can now buy a light bulb that works when there is a power outage. They typically provide a few hours of emergency light around your home. Someone came up with the idea of putting a small battery in the base of the bulb that stays charged when in normal use … Read more

Old Business – New Business

Non-profit boards usually meet monthly or quarterly and most of those meetings involve multi-item agendas. Tradition tends to rule what the design of the agenda looks like. I think this is unfortunate. This post looks at some easy to adopt ideas that, for most, will represent a departure from their current agenda practices.

If board chairs and executive directors, the two people most responsible for the agenda, are prepared to experiment with some new board meeting elements they can give more spring to their organization’s governance step.

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