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Webinar: 10 tips for better Board Orientation
Effective Board Orientation practices are critical to properly welcoming and setting up your Board newcomers for a successful and enjoyable experience in their governance role with your organisation. But all to often I see new Board recruits being left to work things...
What’s Important and Why: Financial Oversight
Financial Oversight is another critical responsibility for not-for-profit Boards, in order to ensure their organisation maintains good financial health, complies with all the relevant finance-related legal requirements, and remains accountable to its donors,...
What’s Important and Why: Risk Management
Risk Management is one of the key accountabilities for anyone who takes on a governance role with an organisation (not-for-profit or otherwise) - ensuring our organisation does what is 'reasonable' to keep its people, its resources, its stakeholders, and its business...
My Latest Newsletter: October 2024
Free Consultancy Vouchers from Benefolk | My Latest Blog | What's Coming Up | Finance Tips From Julie | Working With Me Hi there – thanks for checking out my latest Good Governance Newsletter! I know you are here because you are committed to good not-for-profit...
What’s Important and Why: Good Governance
Good Governance is at the core of our duty to any organisation - not-for-profit or otherwise - with which we have taken on a Board or a Management Committee role. But not only is good governance integral to our legal duties when we join a Board or Committee - the...
My Latest Newsletter: September 2024
Psychological Health and Safety | This Week's Blog | Upcoming Events | Finance Tips From Julie | How can I help? Hi there – thanks for checking out my latest Good Governance Newsletter! I know you are here because you are committed to good not-for-profit governance...
Focus on Board Roles: The role of the Board Treasurer
Whilst ALL Board members have a shared responsibility for the financial health of any organisation they govern, the Treasurer has a particularly key role in ensuring the Board's effective financial oversight of their organisation. And while the Treasurer may work...
My Latest Newsletter: August 2024
Not-for-profit Finance Week | My latest Blog | What's Coming Up | Finance Tips From Julie | Working With Me Hi there – thanks for checking out my latest Good Governance Newsletter! I know you are here because you are committed to good not-for-profit governance...
Focus on Board Roles: The role of the Board Secretary
The role of the not-for-profit Board Secretary is probably the busiest of all the not-for-profit Board roles, and an effective Secretary is critical to the success of any not-for-profit organisation. The Secretary is essentially the formal administrative contact point...
My Latest Newsletter: July 2024
Seeking Communications Professionals for Board Roles? | This Week's Blog | Upcoming Events | Finance Tips From Julie | How can I help? Hi there – thanks for checking out my latest Good Governance Newsletter! I know you are here because you are committed to good...
A Bit About Me: My Values and how I integrate them into the work I do
Ever thought about your own Personal Values? The core things that are of greatest importance to you in your life and everything you do? In our not-for-profits, we talk about Organisational Values often...but how many of us have actually thought about our own Values?...
Webinar: 10 tips for better Board Succession Planning
Good Board Succession Planning can make such a difference to the calibre of orgnisational governance within a not-for-profit (or within any organisation, for that matter!) But time and again I see NFPs doing little or no proactive planning to ensure good Board...
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