Try ‘nontraditional’ communication strategies to bolster board engagement

For nonprofit leaders, finding ways to keep board members engaged and enthusiastically working towards progress on the group's mission and goals is critical. Experts often note that central to this is effective communication and leveraging of key engagement touch‐points—namely, using regular board meetings, committee meetings and annual meetings as ways to reignite board member interest and engagement in the organization's work, and using other reporting opportunities such as monthly financial dashboard reports and informal check‐ins—between those regularly‐scheduled meetups.