On April 14th, Chris Strayer, Executive Vice President of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce hosted a webinar titled “Nonprofit and Community Resources” featuring Leah King, President and CEO, United Way of Tarrant County and Mitch Whitten, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Strategy, Visit Fort Worth. We listened in and gleaned these excellent tips and resources for you.
Like you, we're in the midst of moving board and committee meetings to online or phone meetings, rescheduling events, working remotely to accomplish programs of work that serve our community, revamping campaign plans, reaching out to donors and key stakeholders by phone, email, and social media, and more. The causes we advance are too important to delay!
Our last Good Advice Over Coffee (GAOC) of this year was titled, “Strategic Planning and THE Best Visual to Help Focus Your Efforts.” We selected that topic, in part, due to the volume of strategic planning assignments we have been managing, but also because we find that most staff and volunteers see strategic planning as a chore – when it doesn’t have to be. We’ve learned that using a simple organizational chart can align the efforts of staff and board members to get this important job done.
Every nonprofit knows how important their board is for programming, impact, and overall organizational direction. The staff knows this, the community knows this, and the board members themselves know this. What is sometimes lost, however, is how the board is expected to participate in fundraising. What is your board’s role in fundraising? How do the staff and board work together to maximize fund development? This was the topic for our Good Advice Over Coffee on August 8th.
