As a consultant to nonprofit organizations, I often hear board members complain, “We almost never have time in board meetings to talk about strategy. We’re too busy with board business!”
How Nonprofits Can Keep Strategy Front and Center
A guide to setting a strategy-centric agenda for board meetings.
October 12, 2022
Summary.
Nonprofits boards are notoriously bad at strategy, in part because when they meet they tend to focus all of their time and energy on operational details and routine reporting. To do their work effectively, however, boards need to make strategy a priority — all the time. The author, a consultant to nonprofits, lays out several ways that nonprofit boards can and should overhaul their agendas to put strategy front and center.