{"title":"Technology groups launch new Chief Technology Officer program for nonprofits","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31917","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two leading nonprofit technology companies—TechSoup and Tech Impact—have launched a new initiative, dubbed the Virtual Chief Technology Officer Program for the Nonprofit Sector, that aims to help small nonprofits adopt, manage and optimize technology in a cost-effective and sustainable way.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identify best point person to be change agent for organizational transformation","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31912","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For nonprofit groups long struggling to make headway towards their stated missions, a major overhaul may be in the cards. Often, these overhauls are spearheaded by so-called change agents—a key leader, staff member, board member, consultant or other qualified stakeholder that facilitates, drives and implements a major organizational transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Take steps to ensure smooth board transition periods","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31913","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many nonprofits, an annual board self-assessment not only helps identify strengths and weaknesses that can guide the way towards more effective governance, they also serve to keep the board engaged in its work in a way that regular board meetings and informal check-ins do not. These self-assessments require more focused drill-downs on what's working and what's not—and how the board, and organization as a whole, is making progress on its mission.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Try ‘nontraditional’ communication strategies to bolster board engagement","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31911","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For nonprofit leaders, finding ways to keep board members engaged and enthusiastically working towards progress on the group's mission and goals is critical. Experts often note that central to this is effective communication and leveraging of key engagement touch-points—namely, using regular board meetings, committee meetings and annual meetings as ways to reignite board member interest and engagement in the organization's work, and using other reporting opportunities such as monthly financial dashboard reports and informal check-ins—between those regularly-scheduled meetups.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identify best point person to be change agent for organizational transformation","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31912","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For nonprofit groups long struggling to make headway towards their stated missions, a major overhaul may be in the cards. Often, these overhauls are spearheaded by so-called change agents—a key leader, staff member, board member, consultant or other qualified stakeholder that facilitates, drives and implements a major organizational transformation.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Workshop offers tips on scaling up nonprofit programming","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"Webinar looks at use of AI in donor relations","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31914","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Take steps to ensure smooth board transition periods","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31913","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31913","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many nonprofits, an annual board self-assessment not only helps identify strengths and weaknesses that can guide the way towards more effective governance, they also serve to keep the board engaged in its work in a way that regular board meetings and informal check-ins do not. These self-assessments require more focused drill-downs on what's working and what's not—and how the board, and organization as a whole, is making progress on its mission.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IRS issues updated guidance for maintaining nonprofit exempt status","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/ban.31918","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ban.31918","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service has updated its Stay Exempt tool, the agency's online resource for tax-exempt organizations. The tool is now available at IRS.gov/Stay-Exempt, and will no longer be available at StayExempt.IRS.gov, where it was previously, the agency said.</p>","PeriodicalId":100192,"journal":{"name":"Board & Administrator for Administrators Only","volume":"42 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}