Stanford Research Offers 9 Tips to Improve Nonprofit Governance

6. Compose your board with individuals with skills, resources, diversity, and dedication to address the needs of the nonprofit.

Many nonprofits lack the core of a few members who are willing to devote the time, energy, and skills to ensure the board takes on its full responsibilities. Excellent board composition is not a conceptual challenge – it is about the hard work of finding and adding one more strong board member (and then another).