The Legal Duties of Board Governance
Board governance is essential because it brings the knowledge, skills, and resources of a community together around a mission and its impact.
Readers of our columns know that the most important relationship in a nonprofit organization [Read more]
Meet the Mollard Consulting Team
We are happy to announce a new member of our team joins us this week.
Welcome Olivia Hunt, our new Administrative Coordinator.
She recently moved to Columbus from Kansas City, and we are thrilled to be the [Read more]
Is Your Development Plan Based on Strategy?
Our team serves all types and sizes of nonprofit clients through scopes of work that typically fall into one of three categories: fundraising, planning, and board governance.
The best part of a strategic development plan is [Read more]
Tips for Effective and Engaging Virtual Meeting Facilitation
We’ve mastered Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Facetime, WebEx, GoToMeeting, and even telemedicine doctor appointments. Over the past year and a half, we’ve become so accustomed to virtual connections that a face-to-face meeting seems out of [Read more]
Organizational Orthodoxies Are Holding You Back
What generally accepted practices in your organization are getting in the way of new thinking, processes, programs, or strategies?
What habits does your organization maintain, not because they are needed, but because they have always been?
When [Read more]
Honoring Your Resilience
Through our effort to elevate the voices of diverse leaders in our community, we’re proud to feature Janet Chen, CEO of ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, to share her experience in leading a nonprofit throughout the past [Read more]
Nonprofits Help Us Remember and Heal on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
It’s hard to fathom that it’s been 20 years since the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
Like many of you, I remember exactly where I was when the planes hit the Twin Towers and as the events [Read more]
The Ins and Outs of Succession Planning — Part 2
In last week’s column, we shared that succession planning is an essential element of board governance and is a strategic, continuous process that happens when organizational leadership is stable. Succession planning does not equate [Read more]
The Ins and Outs of Succession Planning — Part One
This summer, we’ve had the pleasure of working with a client on developing a succession plan for their organization. We present the final succession plan to the board this week after months of strategic conversations. [Read more]
Back to School Gratitude
Mid-August means back to school. It’s always a bittersweet time to watch children transition to the next level — that pull between watching them develop and wondering where the years go.
At Mollard Consulting, we value [Read more]
The Latest Trends in Board Governance — Part Two
Earlier this summer, BoardSource released Leading with Intent: BoardSource Index of Nonprofit Board Practices, its tenth study of nonprofit board governance.
Leading with Intent tracks and analyzes trends in nonprofit board leadership by surveying [Read more]
The Latest Trends in Board Governance — Part One
Earlier this summer, BoardSource released Leading with Intent: BoardSource Index of Nonprofit Board Practices, its tenth study of nonprofit board governance.
Leading with Intent tracks and analyzes trends in nonprofit board leadership by surveying [Read more]
Behind the Design
As a freelance photographer and graphic designer, Anne Deis launched Ohiya Design to create highly designed and visual content pieces. Mollard Consulting works with Anne to meet our clients’ needs through designed reports, strategic plans, [Read more]
How to Create a Culture of Philanthropy
Fundraising can sometimes be viewed as a means to an end within nonprofits. Silos may exist between program, development, and finance staff and cross-departmental collaboration may be limited or nonexistent.
Does this sound familiar?
All nonprofits require [Read more]
How To Craft a Compelling Case for Support
Fundraising is about building relationships, and one of our favorite tools for relationship building is the case for support.
The case for support is used to share an organization’s story. It uses emotive language to tell [Read more]