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Board Governance

July 8, 2026

Participatory Budgeting Is Not About Giving Up Control

The most common misconception about participatory budgeting is that it requires an organization to surrender…

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July 8, 2026

Participatory Budgeting, Step by Step: Building It Into Your Annual Calendar

Participatory budgeting is a way of building an organization's budget together with the people it…

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Board Governance

June 4, 2026

What Your Board Does When It Doesn’t Have the Right Information

There is a pattern most executive directors have lived through, even if they've never named it. A…

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Board Governance

April 29, 2026

What a Just Executive Evaluation Actually Requires

Executive evaluation is one of the most consequential things a board does and one of…

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April 29, 2026

The Evaluation That Almost Ended a Healthy Relationship

A board chair called me in October, six weeks before their executive director's annual evaluation.…

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Board Governance

April 15, 2026

When Values Are on the Wall But Not in the Room

By Beth Ellen Holimon, CEO, The Hive Collective A board we work with had spent…

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Board Governance

April 8, 2026

Staying True to Your Mission When the Ground Keeps Shifting

Lately in my work with executives and boards, I keep finding myself in a particular…

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Hope

March 25, 2025

A New Hope in Dark Times: Lessons from Star Wars for the Resistance

by Paul Moonhil When my son was eight years old, I realized that, growing up…

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Prompts

January 10, 2025

Year End Journal Prompts for Nonprofit Leaders

Feel free to pick and choose your favorite questions from each section. Don’t do too…

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July 10, 2024

Podcast – Sumona Majumdar

Building Shared Values and Collective Governance with Sumona Majumdar The Hive Collective Podcast: Shifting Power…

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The Hive Library

Participatory Budgeting Is Not About Giving Up Control

Participatory Budgeting, Step by Step: Building It Into Your Annual Calendar

What Your Board Does When It Doesn’t Have the Right Information

What a Just Executive Evaluation Actually Requires

The Evaluation That Almost Ended a Healthy Relationship

When Values Are on the Wall But Not in the Room

Staying True to Your Mission When the Ground Keeps Shifting

A New Hope in Dark Times: Lessons from Star Wars for the Resistance

Year End Journal Prompts for Nonprofit Leaders

Podcast – Sumona Majumdar

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