by Jeff Smith | May 26, 2026 | Board Governance, Nonprofits and AI
OnBoard’s Governance Insight Gap report, released earlier this year, surveyed 387 board professionals across North America, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand on how their boards access governance insights, and where the blind spots are. Each board in the survey...
by Jeff Smith | Oct 13, 2025 | Nonprofits and AI
Of 100 first-time donors, only 20 will give again the following year. That’s according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project, and it’s a stat that should make every nonprofit leader wince. But is that a retention problem? Or a relationship problem?...
by Jeff Smith | Oct 10, 2025 | Nonprofits and AI
A development director spends her Tuesday afternoon stuffing envelopes. She has a stack of 200 appeal letters that need to go out by end of week, and the board decided that outsourcing to a print shop wasn’t in the budget. So there she is, folding, stuffing,...
by Jeff Smith | Oct 6, 2025 | Nonprofits and AI
You’ve spent six hours on a grant report. You’ve carefully described your program activities, documented your outcomes, explained any budget variances, and crafted language that makes everything sound like it went according to plan (even the parts that...
