Financing not Fundraising: 5 Steps to Jump Start Your Board

Here's a message board members need to understand: Once you're excited about the mission and strategic direction of the organization, it's up to YOU to help fund the strategy to achieve the objectives. This means personal giving AND recruitment of other donors.

Association leaders should worry less about the whether the next call for support is printed in Garamond or Helvetica Narrow and more about how you're going to fund the additional programs and activities you've just asked your staff or association management company to accomplish.

This post, from Nell Edgington at Social Velocity, Financing Not Fundraising: Jump Start Your Board has five good tips for executive directors on how to get more out of the board of directors. This article should also put board members on notice: You need to take the initiative to finance your (professional, trade or charitable) organization.