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Listen Local: February 17 - March 2, 2025
Original Indiana Music _______________________________________________________ Arson Garden: A Brief History by: Jeb Banner Band Interview and Reminiscing I recently had the opportunity to talk with April Combs Mann, James Combs, and Michael Mann from Arson Garden. I’ve known April and James for about 25 years and met Michael more recently during the MFT 20th Anniversary Fest. They are all very talented musicians but also lovely humans.
Listen Local: February 3 - 16, 2025
Original Indiana Music _______________________________________________________ Sardina: A Brief History by: Jeb Banner Preserving Original Music From My 1990s Tapes The MFT archive was started on a snowy evening in February of 2004. I had recently acquired the equipment to digitize cassette tapes and I was amassing a catalog of MP3s- digital sound files. Many of these came from my time in Bloomington in the 1990s. Central Indiana had a very large and active music scene in the 90s.
Nonprofit Board Management Software: 3 Features to Look For
For ages, boards have used pens, paper, filing cabinets, and other old-fashioned supplies and processes as part of their nonprofit management strategies. With COVID-19 threatening our health and safety, many of these traditional operations are no longer feasible. Not to mention, they’re not efficient compared to the more modern options we have available at our fingertips.
Who Your Board Officers Are and Why It’s Vital to Train Them
Anyone who’s ever worked at an organization understands that the board of directors holds a lot of power. As the governing entity for your organization, they’re responsible for making decisions regarding your strategic direction, budgeting, and programming. Because of the crucial importance of the board’s work, you want exceptional leaders at the helm to guide your organization along the correct path.
Prevent Three Common Board Communication Mistakes
Communication mistakes can make boards be less effective. Fostering a solid structure can help boards communicate better with each other and members. Your board works together to make the big decisions that shape your organization. So, what happens if they’re not communicating effectively? When board members have strong communication, they’re able to collaborate on decisions that serve the best interest of your association.
Recruiting for a Board of Directors: What You Need to Know
The individuals you choose to serve on your board directors will be responsible for providing strategic guidance and making high-level decisions that will alter the course of your organization. Because of their importance, you need to approach recruiting them with the utmost care. Here’s how you can execute an effective recruitment process for your board of directors: 1.
Board development: How to transform your board into leaders
Few board members will join your organisation with perfect leadership skills. For most of your board members, opportunities for their professional development will be vital for refining their skills and helping your organisation make powerful strides towards its objectives. Board development is an ongoing process that will differ from organisation to organisation.
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How to Train and Onboard New Board Members Remotely
Half the battle for boards is onboarding and training new members in an orderly fashion, and remote work has made it far more difficult for quick, comprehensive teaching and learning. According to our recent survey, the majority of board members feel effective working in a remote environment, but some feel it’s more difficult to develop deep and trusting relationships with new members. When serving on a board, your team acts as one to meet goals and lead the organization to success.
Build an Effective Nonprofit Board of Directors
As any nonprofit leader knows, an effective and engaged board of directors is crucial to an organization’s long-term resilience and success. Healthy and productive boards don’t just happen, though. They require careful recruitment, consistent communication, genuine relationship-building, and clear expectations.
A Nonprofit’s Checklist for Better Board Succession Planning
Posted: 03.29.2021 Have you ever wondered why you don’t have strong leaders ready to step into your board’s empty positions? If your nonprofit team has ever encountered this situation, you likely haven’t developed a formal board succession plan. This is the case for a lot of organizations.
Core strategies to strengthen your non-profit with mentoring
People learn best with hands-on training and relationships, and mentor programs allow you to harness the power of both. Training via mentorship allows you to develop a culture of learning from the get-go. Having a program in place will allow you to communicate expectations the moment someone joins your team. Newcomers can go to trusted, knowledgeable individuals who have gone through similar experiences, helping them to navigate the non-profit world.
D&I Hiring: How Leaders Can Impact Organizational Change
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives are crucial to an organization’s operations and growth. From a melting pot of characteristics, abilities, and innovation comes the creation of an organization’s most important asset: its culture. Yet, without the proper leadership driving these initiatives, the dynamic of an organization can fall flat. Source: Rawpixel.com / shutterstock Companies are working to address and implement D&I initiatives that best represent and meet the needs of their workforce.
How to Conduct a Productive Large Board Meeting
By Jeb Banner The healthcare industry has endured immense changes over the past several months to navigate an unconventional time. Boards of directors for healthcare organizations have also needed to adapt their operations as they handle new responsibilities and discuss important issues. Strategy is on everyone’s mind, and as the leaders of their organizations, boards should be focusing on it now more than ever.
Lead Through Uncertain Times With Digital Board of Directors Engagement
Health Care Lead Through Uncertain Times With Digital Board of Directors Engagement Optimize your agenda and ensure your board’s productivity remotely. Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2020 - 12:03 As the current pandemic unfolds, organizations’ boards of directors—especially in the healthcare industry—must continue leading and guiding. But gathering board members for in-person meetings is no longer an option. In response, board engagement has gone digital.
How to achieve success as a not-for-profit
A not-for-profit relies on its board leadership to make decisions that promote the longevity of the organisation. These dedicated individuals work to ensure the team has the necessary resources to strive toward its mission and these leaders should be given every opportunity to succeed. To accomplish this, there are three primary ways you can empower not-for-profit board leadership: Make the most of board meetings Emphasise effective communication Clearly define expectations.
3 Tips to Run Better Remote Board Meetings
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent most organizations into a completely remote work environment, whether they were ready or not. That’s included switching to remote board meetings as organizations continue planning strategy and direction. While remote meetings can bring together more board members and make timely decisions during an uncertain time, they can quickly turn stale and lead to disengaged board members.
3 Ways Digital Transformation Can Help Your Board of Directors
Corporate boards know how important digital technology is to their companies. But they’re struggling to start conversations around digitally transforming their boards. A recent Deloitte study found only 32% of corporate board conversations about technology dealt with technology-enabled digital transformation, a critical component of modernizing board operations. And yet, busy board members stand to gain a lot from digital transformation. This is especially true for the board meeting itself.
3 Ways Digital Transformation Can Help Your Board of Directors
Corporate boards know how important digital technology is to their companies. But they’re struggling to start conversations around digitally transforming their boards. A recent Deloitte study found only 32% of corporate board conversations about technology dealt with technology-enabled digital transformation, a critical component of modernizing board operations. And yet, busy board members stand to gain a lot from digital transformation. This is especially true for the board meeting itself.
How to Manage Board Committee Overload
It takes a village to run a nonprofit; there is no denying that. Each organization needs people it can count on to come together for a specific purpose and help contribute to the organization’s success, whether by joining the board, the staff or a committee. However, as a board or staff member right now, it may seem like you are attending virtual committee meeting after virtual committee meeting, trying to ensure everything is still running smoothly.
In Challenging Times, Optimize Board Operations With Digital Board Engagement
By Jeb Banner, CEO of Boardable The current pandemic is straining operations for many organizations — especially within the healthcare industry. Your board of directors is navigating your organization through this challenging time but probably faces new challenges with digital operations. What does digital board engagement look like? Can your board members conduct business remotely? Your board needs optimized operations to keep its agenda and your organization running smoothly.
Solving the Mystery of Board Engagement and Fundraising
Nonprofit fundraising is heavily impacted by board engagement, so over the last two years, Boardable has conducted and sponsored multiple surveys to better understand the challenges that nonprofits face in working with their boards.
How Your Board Can Help Sustain Your Fundraising
In today’s uncertain times, you may be wondering how to keep your fundraising operations going. The thought of asking for more support right now could seem overwhelming. And while your board exists to help your organization through tough times, you might be worried about asking more from them. But nonprofits need funding to provide the goods and services people rely upon — now more than ever. Your board members know this and will be willing to help.
How to Keep Your Board Members Engaged All Year
There are volumes written on staying engaged with your professional work, how to motivate employees, and communication in the workplace. That’s great for businesses, but how do nonprofits keep volunteer board members engaged in their work? Busy professionals who are donating their time to a cause want to do well in their board service, but they may need a little help.
Calling Into Nonprofit Board Meetings: Is It Worth It?
Just like any working professional, your nonprofit board members have busy lives. While they are trying to juggle between their work and personal lives, it might be necessary for you to implement some flexibility when it comes to dealing with unavoidable conflicts. This method certainly is practical for those who are not able to attend a meeting, but virtual participation can also present some challenges.
Encouraging Board Accountability
Annual board meetings may seem like a drag until there is something the board can be excited about, like new initiatives in the organization or a fundraising campaign. That’s when each member seems to be on the same page, willing to carry their own weight and volunteer to complete specific tasks during and after meetings. However, it’s common for this excitement to subside. Before you know it, next year has arrived and the tasks you planned to have completed are unfinished and abandoned.
Code Red: Board Meeting Attendance
Poor attendance can really interrupt the flow of information on a volunteer nonprofit board of directors. This can lead to knowledge gaps, lack of discussion on important topics and the inability to reach quorum when voting on issues. These issues could be caused by anything from a lack of time and board members feeling stretched thin, to the inefficiency of the way meetings are run. Some members may even not feel useful at these meetings, which could have an effect on attendance.
Conflict on the Board of Directors? Tips to Defuse Tension
Members of a nonprofit board of directors are wonderful people. They are often accomplished professionals, visionary leaders, and passionate supporters of the cause. Interestingly, these characteristics of excellent directors can also set the stage for tension in the boardroom. Let’s look at four tips for defusing any conflicts. Clearly define roles and rules of conduct. The most effective boards and meetings have one thing in common: clear expectations.
Board Diversity as a Social Change Agent - Part 2: How to Open the Door
Jeb Banner, Boardable CEO Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jeb Banner, Boardable CEO This is the first in a two-part series from Jeb Banner about board diversity. You can read the first installation here. We’ve already established the reasons that board diversity is the healthiest path forward for boards. Where it gets interesting is when we start to think of diverse board recruiting as a path for social transformation.
Board Diversity as a Social Change Agent - Part 1: How It Works
Jeb Banner, Boardable CEO Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jeb Banner, Boardable CEO This is the first in a two-part series from Jeb Banner about board diversity. “Board diversity” is one of those buzz words you hear regularly in nonprofit circles. We all know the general reasons why it is desirable for the nonprofit, but what if board diversity could be a change agent for individual board members? What if more inclusive board recruitment could actually change our communities?
Do Your Nonprofit A Favor: Start Board Self-Assessments
Anyone who is serious about improving at something, whether it is running, meditation or baking a perfect cake, will periodically stop to assess where there are new facts to learn, skills to practice and research to be done. So why don’t more of us apply these principles to our board service? A board self-assessment is one of the most impactful things a board and its members can do to support a nonprofit.
Tough Love for Nonprofit Board Member Fundraising
Engaging nonprofit board members in fundraising is one of the most persistent challenges that organizational leaders face. Sure, we can hire and train better staff members, find contractors to produce beautiful promotional materials and design the most impactful programming possible; but without a board that is actively helping lead the development charge, there is unrealized potential.
Is It Time to Scale Your Nonprofit?
You have a mission in mind. You’ve drawn up your bylaws and values, you understand your business model and what you’re trying to achieve, you have a few people working on the internal team and there are a handful of trusted advisors acting as your board. Congratulations – you’ve officially started your nonprofit! Now comes the hard part: growing. Scaling a nonprofit means honing in on what makes a nonprofit a business. And yes, your nonprofit is a business and needs to grow in a sustainable way.
The First Thing Nonprofit Boards Should Focus On: Member Engagement
There is no shortage of literature on how to run a nonprofit and what the board of directors should be doing. Do a quick search for “grant writing advice” or “board meeting agenda” and you will easily find hundreds of resources. But if there is so much helpful information around, why is serving on a nonprofit board sometimes so draining?
The Recipe for an Exceptional Board Member
Jeb Banner, CEO Boardable Special to the Philanthropy Journal By Jeb Banner, CEO Boardable Many executive directors daydream about discovering the perfect board member. Perhaps the daydream was born of frustration regarding a current board member, and the director suddenly found himself or herself wishing “if only I could have the perfect board member…” What if you could? If you could create the perfect board member, what would that description include?
Board Management Software: Only Pay for What You Need
Smart nonprofits are always looking for better tools to engage their boards of directors. It’s an incredible time for productivity; there are digital solutions for almost every single need. However, there’s also a danger of overkill. You start to patch together apps and software until, suddenly, the board is using 15 different programs or paying for features and monthly services they don’t want or need.
A How-To Guide for Nonprofit Board Engagement
Effective nonprofit board management is about more than To-Do lists or getting through an agenda. You need to be able to communicate effectively, to let your board know what your organization expects from them and, above all, respect your members’ time and service. These qualities will ensure you have engaged and effective board members who see serving your organization as a rewarding experience, not just a resume booster or a chore to get through.
Board Member Engagement Increases Corporate Sponsorships
Nonprofit board members should always be looking for opportunities to help fundraise. To be sustainable, the nonprofit needs every member of the board involved in your development efforts. One excellent place to start is securing corporate sponsors. This method of development does not come naturally to every board member. A nonprofit offers something of value to the sponsor through the partnership and should underscore this value. How? Let's take a look.
Exceptional Board Members, Clear Expectations
It’s a typical scenario. Your freshman board members start with enthusiasm, but once the initial excitement of being part of your organization fades, they begin to lack follow-through or initiative. A board that is not living up to your expectations or simply not performing can quickly degrade the overall board member experience. Before you get frustrated, it is important to realize that your board members can’t live up to your expectations if they don’t know what you want and need.
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