This Week's Resources + Solutions

• We take a look at the latest board diversity data, providing important questions for your board to contemplate.
• Lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina for those on the front lines of picking up from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
• On the BoardSource blog: Secure Your Oxygen Mask First: A Lesson in Nonprofit Organizational Capacity Building.

Taking Action on Board Diversity: Five Questions to Get You Started

Leading with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices reveals some troubling information about the diversity of today’s nonprofit boards: We’re making little progress in diversifying our boards, are dissatisfied with our board diversity, but are doing little to prioritize it in our board recruitment practices. In an effort to spark action, we present five questions for your board to contemplate.

Declining Diversity of Nonprofit Boards and What to Do About It

Did you miss this NPQ webinar featuring BoardSource’s Anne Wallestad and Vernetta Walker commenting on our recent Leading with Intent findings? You can listen to the recording.

Freeing Nonprofits from their Risk-Averse Shackles

As the country confronts the aftermaths of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, we look back at some lessons learned by New Orleans’s Kingsley House as it dealt with Hurricane Katrina. They remain relevant today.

On the BoardSource Blog: Secure Your Oxygen Mask First

In this new blog post, Emily Brush of the Council on Accreditation and a speaker at BLF 2017 encourages nonprofits to focus on our sustainability first, impact second.

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