Fundraising & Financial Oversight: Helping Boards Rise To The New Challenges

Recruiting for non-profit board members is tough any time. The “good candidates” are busy people. The unpaid responsibilities are many. So I’m not surprised that 80% of non-profits are actively recruiting between one and six board members at any given time. Or that more than half — 58% — of non-profit leaders report that it is difficult to recruit new board members. Or that 27% of chief executives do not feel they have the right board members to effectively govern their organizations (see Leading With Intent: A National Index Of Nonprofit Board Practices).

And the issues around recruiting . . .