Advice for Engaging Boards
By Mary Moss Let’s look back at the last month, which seems like a year. Your first order of business was to make provisions to meet your mission even as you were shuttering your offices. Somehow, you had to go virtual administratively and also devise new ways to meet your constituencies’ needs. Then, in the flood of programmatic adaptations, you cancelled or postponed fundraising events, reached out to your donors and volunteers to check in, and pushed out some great annual fund appeals. You have done a terrific job. Now, what about your boards? The pandemic thrusts boards onto center stage to assess and reassess the risk that COVID-19 poses to the organization. Risk management will continue to be the number one focus during the crisis, with special attention directed to program delivery and finance. Yet there [...]