Board Management
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Mona Fluitt on KRBE’s Around H-Town Radio Show
I recently had the great pleasure of being interviewed by local radio host Freddy Cruz on KRBE’s show Around H-Town. Check out the segment to learn more about the Nonprofit Management Academy. I am grateful to Freddy and KRBE for this opportunity to discuss nonprofit management and compliance.
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4 Important Fundraising Questions for Youth Sports and Booster Clubs
Here are four questions that every board and committee member should be able to answer about their fundraising efforts. 1. What defines a sponsorship versus an advertisement? For tournaments and other events, it is imperative to know the difference because one qualifies as a possible tax-deductible contribution and the other […]
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A Letter to Parents and Board Members of Youth Sports
While working with parent-run, youth sports boards of directors, I have noticed one specific difference between them and my other clients—longevity. Board members at hospitals, social service agencies, symphonies, museums, and places of worship have long-standing volunteer careers of board service. They advance from worker bee to positions of leadership […]
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Did yesterday’s election affect nonprofit organizations?
If you voted in Texas yesterday, you saw a proposed constitutional amendment on your ballot addressing certain organizations’ ability and qualifications to hold charitable raffles. If your organization has ever conducted or plans to conduct a raffle to raise funds, are you well-versed in the law? When I ask people […]
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The Three Duties of Nonprofit Board Members, Part 3: Duty of Obedience
This post concludes our discussion of the legal responsibilities of nonprofit boards—duty of care, loyalty, and obedience. The duty of obedience requires that you be faithful to the mission of the organization you serve. You are not permitted to take any action that is inconsistent with the organization’s central goals. […]
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The Three Duties of Nonprofit Board Members, Part 2: Duty of Loyalty
In The Three Duties of Nonprofit Board Members, Part 1, I began a discussion of the duties of care, loyalty, and obedience. Having already covered duty of care, this post addresses the second of these, the duty of loyalty. The duty of loyalty is simply a standard of faithfulness to […]
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The Three Duties of Nonprofit Board Members, Part 1: Duty of Care
The three duties of nonprofit board members are the well-established standards of conduct and attention that board members must meet under nonprofit corporate law in the daily governance of an organization. Many board members have told me that when they were recruited for service, they were told such things as: […]