Board Development
Leadership
Fundraising
Revenue for Nonprofits
Accountability/Evaluation
100
Volunteers who lead the strategic direction of nonprofit organizations
What is the Board of Directors?
100
The highest management position in a nonprofit organization.
Who is the Executive Director?
100
A one-day, fundraising initiative sponsored by the Communities Foundation of Texas aimed at increasing donations to nonprofit organizations based in North Texas
What is North Texas Giving Day?
100
The extent of an organization’s reliance on a suppliers of funds
What is autonomy?
100
Answerability for one’s actions or behavior
What is accountability?
200
This board position is responsible for monitoring the work of the board and evaluating the board's performance
Who is the Board President?
200
This style of leadership is characterized by the ability to bring about significant change in both followers and the organization by focusing on intangible qualities such as the vision and shared values of the organization
What is transformational leadership?
200
The asking component of the fundraising process.
What is solicitation?
200
Grants for specific programs, government contracts and individuals donations with specifications are examples of this type of gift.
What are restricted gifts?
200
This is tool used to resolve conflict among multiple stakeholders and was specifically developed with international non-governmental organizations in mind.
What is the strategic triangle?
300
This standard of conduct requires that each board member act primarily in the best interest of the organization and not in his or her own personal best interest or in the interest of individuals at the expense of the organization.
What is the duty of loyalty?
300
This is unequivocally important in the legitimization of nonprofit organizations
What is trust?
300
A process whereby an organization seeks to be worthy of continued philanthropic support, including the acknowledgement of gifts, donor recognition, the honoring of donor intent, prudent investment of gifts, and the effective and efficient use of funds to further the mission of the organization
What is stewardship?
300
Nonprofit organizations generate the largest percentage of revenue from this source
What are fees for service?
300
This legislation instituted a number of reforms for the governance of private sector entities, which in turn impacted evaluation expectations for nonprofit organizations
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002)?
400
In the high-impact governing model, the board of directors is responsible for addressing these three questions
What are the strategic, operational and accountability questions?
400
Leaders are expected to these core values in ethical organizations
What are integrity, openness, accountability, service, and charity?
400
The expected level (percentage) of participation of board members who give to the nonprofit organizations they lead
What is 100%?
400
The extent to which an organization can predict its revenues year-to-year for budgeting, staffing, and program planning
What is reliability?
400
These are measures of effectiveness that many funders, donors, and the general public are expecting nonprofit organizations to demonstrate. For example, quality of life improvements, improvements in self-esteem, etc.
What are outcomes?
500
This committee functions in place of the full board of directors and handles routine and crisis matters between board meetings.
What is the executive committee?
500
Monitor, Disseminator, Spokesperson are all examples of this type of behavioral role for an executive director
What is the informational role?
500
Monitoring of continuous changes in market and market reactions to various solicitation techniques; list management; and management of multiple-donor relationships are management challenges associated with this revenue source.
What are individual contributions?
500
This is the most commonly know example of a federated funding sources or intermediaries
What is the United Way?
500
This dimension of accountability comes from close supervision from a higher authority, which utilizes a set of performance standards, organizational rules and regulations, and supervisory directives
What is hierarchical?
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