Core Information, Step 1: Build Your Board
Starting a nonprofit is both rewarding and challenging. As a founder, you shoulder the crucial responsibility of defining your organization’s mission, vision, and values. You also must assemble a team that works in harmony towards achieving your common...
Core Information, Pillar 1: Infrastructure
Last week, we talked about the importance of having a good governance structure in place as the foundation of your nonprofit. This week, we’ll discuss the policies and procedures your nonprofit needs to be compliant with your tax-exempt status and to receive...
Core Information, Pillar 1: Infrastructure, Step 1: Build Your Board
Part 1: Infrastructure Pillar, Management Area We have been talking about the Build a Nonprofit Framework. Today, we are diving deep into the Infrastructure Pillar, Management Area of that framework. There are nine steps that fall into this pillar and that is the...
Grant Ready, Know Your Plan, Pillar 1: Infrastructure, Pillar 3: Fundraising Basics, Step 4: Create your Signature Program on paper with a budget, Step 8: Learn fundraising basics
You got into nonprofit work to not just do something about a problem but to solve it. Programs are how you do something about a problem and they serve as your proof of concept. Developing a program is crucial to your organization’s prosperity. Programs allow you...
Pillar 1: Infrastructure, Step 1: Build Your Board
Congratulations! You are at the point you need to build a Board of Directors. You may not know the nuts and bolts of Board recruitment- much less a great Board. So what do you do? How do you recruit? Today, I’m talking about what you need to do before you begin...
