Board members should understand why gifts are made

• Published date: 01 November 2017
• Date: 01 November 2017
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/ban.30564

November 2017 • Volume 34, Number 3 3

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Your rst 100 days to-do list

should include these items

New CEOs should put these items

on a to-do list during their first 100

days on the job.

1. Promote yourself. If you are

hired, start by sending a letter to

all employees to introduce yourself

before the job starts.

2. Set early, achievable goals. Do-

able is the key. Consider landscaping

improvements around the organiza-

tion’s offices and various sites that

people notice when they drive by.

3. Spend time with your direct

reports. Hear their concerns and

successes. Ask how you can help.

Ask questions such as:

• What are your goals for the year?

• What assistance do you need to

be successful?

• What do you expect from the

administrator?

• In working here, what do you

see as the three greatest needs?

4. Learn about the community.

Speak to the Lions and Rotary Clubs

to let them know what you are about.

5. Seek revenue for training.

Make sure the board pays for the

administrator to join a professional

organization.

6. Evaluate the first 100 days.

You and the board should have a

dialogue about what is good since

you’ve arrived and what is bad. After

100 days, the honeymoon is over

and you need to assess the strengths

and weaknesses of the organization

and where you go from here. ■

Conference attendance gives

mutual benet

One of the perks recently retired

North Carolina Executive Director Da-

vid Cook received in his position was

attendance at a conference each year.

“The board saw it was to their and

the nonprofit’s advantage to have a

credentialed social worker leading the

ministry,” Cook said. “They supported

my attendance at a conference that

provides 20 hours of Continuing Edu-

cation Units in two-and-a-half-days’

time each year. In order to retain

my Licensed Clinical Social Worker

credential, I needed to accomplish

40 hours of CEUs every two years.

It works more efficiently this way,

rather than having me drive all over

the state to attend seminars put on

by various area National Association

of Social Workers chapters.” ■

Board members should understand why gifts are made

Board meetings are important … but

they can also be boring when they fo-

cus on investment returns, budgets and

audits.

To make board meetings more engaging,

share not only the value of planned gifts

the organization receives, but the stories

behind them.

Almost every planned gift has a story. It

is the motivation behind the gift that board

members need to hear in order to fully un-

derstand what philanthropy means.

This information will make your mission

come alive for board members, as they will

see your organization helps people make

a difference. ■