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According to the good ole Mirriam-Webster Dictionary, delegate means “to entrust to another.” As we continue this discussion of Board Governance, one of the key components of the Policy Governance model is for the Board to delegate the authority to the Chief Executive...

I have really been pondering this notion of boards and their governance responsibility. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the words 'accountability' and 'responsibility'. After reading a couple of dictionary definitions it is clear that they are different, and...

So, one of my gigs in this consulting business is teaching. I’m an adjunct faculty member in the Public Administration Department at North Carolina State University. I regularly teach the program evaluation class. However, I will get a call every now and then to teach...

Throughout my 32-year career as an Executive Director, Development Director and funder, I have heard horror stories about dysfunctional boards and dysfunctional CEO/Board relationships. However, that dysfunction is a product of the evolving nonprofit sector. We have...

Since 2020, Partners for Impact has been working with Child Care Services Association (CCSA) on a pilot project to help homeless and domestic violence shelters implement the Early Childhood Self Assessment Tool (ECSAT). This instrument guides an agency through...

At the Bringing It Home Conference, Beth and Stan held a session on building your organization’s capacity. They introduced the Marguerite Casey Organizational Capacity Assessment and discussed the limitations of the tool as well as why it is important to work with a...

At the Bringing It Home Conference, Beth and Stan held a session on building your organization’s capacity. They explained the Marguerite Casey Organizational Capacity Assessment and shared with the participants a simple start to assessing your organization’s capacity....

What’s the difference between language access and language justice? Probably like most people, I had not given much thought to language access as an issue of justice. Recently, however, we had an opportunity to learn firsthand what language justice looks like in...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, nonprofits and human service organizations had to pivot quickly, dramatically changing processes and protocols in response to CDC requirements, mandated restrictions, and the economic and health crisis. As a leader of a...