Creating board binders is one small step towards helping the board understand their governance role and embrace both donor cultivation and fiscal responsibility. This resource will help you put together an onboarding binder your board will actually use!

Because founders—regardless of the sector—are remarkably good at many things, and they should steer clear of others. The key to a founder’s long-term success is self-awareness and self-mastery.

Checklist: People

A one-pager is a simple document that you will hand to anyone who visits your organization. Here’s what you need to include.

Template: Narrative

Whether you have an audit to prepare for or not, it’s important to get – and keep – your financial house in order. This checklist will be enormously helpful for you to get the right habits in place now.

Checklist: Money

The board you have is the board you build. This downloadable checklist will remind you what you SHOULD be considering when you interview new prospective board members.

Template: People

This checklist includes some tips and tricks that I (Joan Garry) use to take the fullest advantage of the opportunity and responsibility of engaging the audience regardless of oratory prowess.

Checklist: People, Narrative

As part of Lindsay Hoffman’s terrific Masterclass on grant writing, she created a checklist to help you decide if a grant is worth pursuing. Here is that checklist.

Checklist: Money

This guide is the checklist you probably don’t want to download. But please do so anyway. It’s like buying insurance. You hope it was a waste of money and you never use it. But you should buy it all the same.

Template: People, Narrative