How to Recruit a Fundraising Board

Once you start to see successes with individual board members, share that with the whole board. Let them see what individual members are doing and how it moves the organization forward. They will be inspired to embrace their own unique roles.

Many nonprofit leaders start from the wrong place of cajoling, demanding, begging or simply giving up on the idea of board members and fundraising. If instead you start from the position of getting each individual board member to find his or her unique role to play, the money will follow.