Is Your Nonprofit Strategically Deprived? Updated & Revised
By: Eugene Fram
A vital concern to the future of any nonprofit organization is frequently neglected. Responsibility for the lack of strategic planning must reside with the chief executive, board members and the tactical challenges that inevitably flow to the board.
Before a nonprofit board can begin successful strategic planning, it must: (more…)
Target More Specific Skills in Nonprofit Board Recruitment – Revised & Updated
By: Eugene Fram
When the nominating committee sits down each year to fill vacant or termed-out board slots, their challenge is to identify the “right” directors for the organization. Typically, the group will work with a grid to define the types of skills they deem valuable to the board composition. While this kind of generic search (e.g. marketing, financial, human resource,) is adequate in many cases, the committee would do well to narrow the probe with an approach more focused on a candidate’s specific experience and skills. (more…)
After the gift is received, announced and celebrated, where does a nonprofit board and its management go from there? And whose job is it to see that the donor remains meaningfully engaged and involved in the organization? These are questions that I have been thinking about after a friend brought facts of his donor experience to my attention.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-fram/major-donor-has-remorseno_b_4783511.html
Wanted: Nonprofit CEOs with Entrepreneurial People Skills
The need for superior leadership skills is as critical to CEOs in nonprofits as it is in the entrepreneurial world. * Following are four such skills and the unique challenges they bring when employed in the nonprofit environment.
• The CEO’s Power of Persuasion
A nonprofit CEO and the board must take the lead in creating the organization’s mission, vision and values. (more…)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-fram/the-real-story-of-nonprof_b_4676397.html
When the board and management talk about each other outside the boardroom, their remarks are often good indicators of the quality of their working partnership. After many years of viewing both sides of the fence via consulting assignments and board chair positions, I have observed verbal behaviors that clearly reveal how the two groups view each other. These attitudes, which I regard as critical to the nature of the board/management relationship, also can be a keystone to mission success. (more…)
Nonprofits can strengthen their governance procedures by experimenting with new ideas that have been successfully implemented…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-fram/are-nonprofit-board-chair_b_4640044.html
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Eugene Fram, Professor Emeritus
Saunders College of Business
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Articles or Coauthored Articles Related to For-Profit & Nonprofit Governance
December 2013
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A frank discussion of the overhead myth may impact the very survival of nonprofits. Article in the September-October issue of Nonprofit World?
Bibliography: Articles Related to For-Profit & Nonprofit Governance – September, 2013
By
Eugene Fram, Professor Emeritus
Saunders College of Business
Rochester Institute of Technology
frameugene @gmail.com
Remembering it is the beginning of the school year, I have developed the following bibliography for those needing references on corporate governance. It is a list of articles I have published over the last several decades. You can easily access most by listing article title via a Google search. If you have problems accessing any, please send me an e-mail. Several additional articles are scheduled for publication, and I will add to this bibliography as they are published. (more…)
Important: Robust Evaluations of Nonprofit CEOs
By Eugene Fram
Like any group, the vast majority of nonprofit CEOs are hardworking managers dedicated to the mission, vision and values of their organizations. The nonprofit evaluation processes of the past, typically involving a cursory examination of the financials plus a simple questionnaire to directors, simply isn’t sufficient for the 21st century. A much more rigorous process is needed if to keep the public’s faith in nonprofit world. I have been involved with these types of evaluations, and the professional CEOs involved understood their necessity.
Following are the steps I consider necessary for a robust CEO evaluation. (more…)
Nonprofit Management 