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The Association of Development Officers Monthly Luncheon Meeting February 2011 Board Development: Creating the Board of

The Association of Development Officers Monthly Luncheon Meeting February 2011 Board Development: Creating the Board of the Future ___ Nonprofit Governance in Our New Environment A Conversation About Nonprofit Boards. Our New Environment What is Different?.

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The Association of Development Officers Monthly Luncheon Meeting February 2011 Board Development: Creating the Board of

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  1. The Association of Development Officers • Monthly Luncheon Meeting • February 2011 • Board Development: Creating the Board of the Future • ___ • Nonprofit Governance in Our New Environment • A Conversation About Nonprofit Boards

  2. Our New EnvironmentWhat is Different? • Dramatic economic downturn (severity and length still a question) • Increased regulation (Auditing, IRS 990, other) • Late and slow payments, credit markets tight • An environment of fear, cynicism, and increased public scrutiny

  3. The Board of the Future • Increased Board engagement is NOT optional! • Sharpened understanding and ownership of finances • Board committed/active in engaging new supporters & stewardship of committed, long-term supporters • Board and CEO must communicate openly and often • Board must organize to be effective and efficient, set clear goals for itself, and measure its results (Scorecard)

  4. Generative Board Meetings • An unyielding focus on strategy and how individual members can fuel strategy • Applied energy toward and support for innovation • Commitment to and/or securing of resources for experimentation • Commitment to consent agenda and efficiencies

  5. Resilience and Sustainability • Resilience depends on variety - capture and begin with many ideas – clear agreement on strategy is essential • Begin with small scale strategic experimentation with those ideas that appear to be genuinely novel – create “nimbleness” • Generate, launch, and track novel strategy experiments; successes justify more substantial commitments • Track experiments in the areas of pricing, delivery, advertising, and customer satisfaction

  6. Philanthropy - Toward the Future • Measurement, results, impact orientation • Take advantage of the propensity of institutional grantmakers and some individual donors for the “new” and “innovative” by encouraging their investment in core activities and small experiments. • Institutions falter when they invest too much in “what is” (especially when “what is” is dying), and too little in “what could be”

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