Is Your Nonprofit Board Chair Productive?
Hundreds of articles have probably been published about the skills and abilities nonprofit CEOs need to have to meet the challenges of the nonprofit environment. These include: reduced funding, increased use of technology and increased responsibilities for fundraising.
Relatedly, nonprofit board chairs have been encountering escalating challenges to recruit able board personnel. Current chairs must develop a more active partnership with the CEO in fundraising and lead the board in making difficult financial, technology and other strategy decisions.
To address these challenges, following are the attributes that I think a nonprofit board chair should have to be productive, within the confines of being a volunteer (part-time) chairperson.
• Great Communication Skills: Current issues can be so pressing that chairs will need to be the types of people who don't limit their board communications to regular meetings. Those who head the board must be in positions to return phone calls or other communications promptly and proactively seek the counsel of directors as needs arise. As a communicator, the chair should listen intently as well as provide outward-bound communications.
https://non-profit-management-dr-fram.com/2024/11/06/is-your-nonprofit-board-chair-productive-3/
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Don Dea FASAE, FASAE
Board Chair
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc and America's Vet Dogs
Santa Monica CA
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