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Welcome to Karen Eber Davis Consulting
Warm summer greetings. Would you like your board to do more to support your organization? Perhaps they are willing but do not know your needs. Give them, Guilty as Charged, to stimulate their thinking. In this issue, you will also find updates on upcoming events, a Time-Tastic! tip from our new booklet Time Management for Nonprofit Leaders and other information, resources and ideas to use now.
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Guilty As Charged:
Prove that Your Board
Supports Your Organization
Before a jury of their peers, would your board members be found guilty of supporting your organization? Would a lawyer find enough evidence to convict them? Below is a list of evidence to make the case. Use it to help your board prove their guilt.
Evidence #1. Gifts. Determine the amount of money your board gives over the course of a year. What is the total? What is the range of gifts? Has either increased in recent years? If yes, note this fact.
Evidence #2. Percent Who Give. This is the number who give divided by the total number of members. Many donors require 100 percent participation. Why would someone less familiar with your organization, like a new donor or national foundation, be more committed than people close to it like board members? While the amount given by board members is important to your organization's finances, to outside donors the percent that give according to their means is the critical evidence.
Evidence #3. Attend Board Meetings. How many board members attend meetings regularly? Here is how this was reported in the corporate world, "In 2009, our Board met 10 times. In addition to meetings of the Board, directors attended meeting of individual Board committees. In 2009, all of the directors attended at least 75 percent of the Board meetings and meetings of the Board committees . . ."
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More Resources
Board support is critical for nonprofit success. For more ideas on how to grow accountability and enhance your board see:
Board Support Chart Use this handy chart to help your board gather evidence about how they support your organization.
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 Time-Tastic! Tip
From the Procrastination & Dawdling Section
48. Butt Glue. Sometimes you just need to apply butt glue, as my friend Rebecca Garcia calls persistence. To create butt glue, use a timer. Set time limits for unpleasant-but-must-do tasks. Start with 60-minute increments. Leaving your chair to water the plants or leaving the task to check your email calls for a penalty. Add five-minute to the timer for every delay --longer if the delay exceed three minutes. If you use butt glue you will make progress. The boredom is far worse than doing any task. On the other hand, completing an onerous task for one-hour calls for a reward, take fifteen for a treat.
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New at www.kedconsult.com
This article. . .Board Support Chart and. . . Podcast #3 Karen Eber Davis Interviews Kathy KingstonCan
an auction help your organization to raise money? What items make the
most? Learn the answer to these questions and more as Karen interviews
Kathy Kingston. Kingston is a national leader in fundraising auctions,
professional auctioneer and consultant. Kingston, CAI, BAS has raised
millions of dollars for non-profit organizations across the country for
over 24 years, specializing in benefit auctions. Kingston was the
recipient of the prestigious "Rose Award" from the National Auctioneers
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Upcoming
Events
2010
Teleconferences
Raising the Bar
October 1
12 Noon Eastern Time
Raising the Bar on Your Team Experiences,
From Networking
to Mergers
To do more we need more help. One way to get help is to partner with others. At this event, you will learn how to:
Improve the quality of your relationships with partners
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Attract and retain more partners, including donors
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Reduce wasted time and money and avoid misunderstandings
Coming in 2011...
Save the Date! February 4, 2011
Time Management
In coordination with the Nonprofit Leadership Center of Tampa Bay, Inc. Details to be announced. |
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