What should you do to access disaster relief loans for nonprofits? With shelter-in-place orders, schools closing, and employment law changes, I know lots of nonprofits are scrambling to plan for the coming next weeks and...

As the country hunkers down in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm getting tons of questions about voting member meetings and board meetings and how to hold a virtual board meeting. Here are my...

You know what I'm talking about, the pie chart you see on annual reports from nonprofits all the time that show a lot of money going to "programs" and a small slice going to "overhead"...

One of the things I've noticed in my years as the lawyer for nonprofits is the confusion people have about the board chair or board president role. Sometimes clients come in dealing with some sort...

New nonprofits often start with board members who have no training or experience with running an effective board meeting. And most new boards don't even realize they are shaping the culture of the organization with...

I work with a lot of people who’d like to start a nonprofit, and one of first things I usually have to remind those founders is that a nonprofit startup needs board members. Once I...

I work with a lot of people who think they'd like to start a nonprofit, and one of first things I usually have to remind those founders is that a nonprofit needs board members. Usually,...