Nov 10th, 2010 Our Team and Board, Volunteer Consulting
The Benefits of Board Service
Today, Taproot will be attending the BoardSource Leadership Forum , a conference "focused entirely on the governing challenges facing America's nonprofit organizations." Joining our President and CEO Aaron Hurst for a session on the intersection of pro bono and board service are two business professionals who are walking the walk by donating their time and skills to their own local...
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Nov 9th, 2010 Our Team and Board
A Good Board Meeting
Over the past eight years, we have evolved our board meetings to be increasingly effective. Having sat on other boards and through too many of our own old board meetings, it is striking to see the changes and improvements that have developed through experience. Someone suggested that I describe our current board meeting structure as one model for running a...
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Nov 8th, 2010 Our Team and Board
The Road to Board Service: A tale of two professionals
This Wednesday, Taproot will be attending the BoardSource Leadership Forum, a conference "focused entirely on the governing challenges facing America's nonprofit organizations." Joining our President and CEO Aaron Hurst for a session on the intersection of pro bono and board service are two business professionals who are walking the walk by donating their time and skills to their own local...
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Jan 20th, 2010 Nonprofit Management, Our Team and Board
Boards that Encourage Innovation
With an upcoming Taproot board meeting, the recent release of our Board Recruitment Service Grant, and our participation in the San Francisco board matching event referenced in my last post, this week we have been thinking a lot about board service. As a result, an article that referenced a board made up mainly of lawyers caught my attention. My experience...
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Jan 12th, 2010 Our Team and Board
A (Board) Match Made in Heaven
This evening, the Volunteer Center Serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties presented their annual Board Match Event at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event is essentially a job fair for potential board members. More than 120 nonprofits set up booths and wooed potential board members from all walks of life. One woman attended because after a 20-year...
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Nov 18th, 2009 Our Team and Board, Service Area: Marketing
FD Sets Gold Standard for PR
We recently received a service grant from FD. FD is a global communications consultancy where one of our board members is a senior managing director. FD focuses on business and financial communications and has worked with us in a pro bono capacity on a number of projects for several years. When FD describes their company values, they say that they...
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Oct 28th, 2009 Nonprofit Management, Our Team and Board
Pro Bono Board Development Resource
After eight years, we finally had a successful board recruitment process last year. We had recruited great board members before, but the process was often confusing and painful. A significant part of last year's recruitment success was due to the leadership of the chair of the committee, but the success was also the result of applying basic HR recruitment practices...
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Aug 25th, 2009 Nonprofit Management, Our Team and Board
Gen X: It’s Time to Join Boards
An accomplished professional in his mid-30s called me recently. He wanted to get more engaged in the community and wanted my advice on how to best do that. He said he wanted to help an arts nonprofit go from start-up to adolescence or to help an aging arts group become relevant to new generations. He could be a great asset...
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