How To Lead Your Local Nonprofit
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Heather recently joined the board of her local library, a beloved institution from her childhood. While continuing to balance her day job, she is excited to be an active and engaged member of this community-led organization. But she's also grappling with time management and effective communication with her fellow board members. How can she express her ideas and opinions without overstepping boundaries? In this episode of How To!, host Courtney Martin welcomes nonprofit consultant Malini Sridharan who offers expert advice on navigating the challenges of community leadership and the intricacies of board dynamics.
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| 0:21.8 | Talk about genius. |
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| 0:23.7 | Coming to headphones near you on April 17th, |
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| 0:27.8 | Available wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to How To, the show where listeners bring us their goals and we find the perfect person to help make them happen. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 1:00.0 | Here's a fact that makes my little heart sing out. |
| 1:04.0 | Did you know that there are nearly 20,000 public libraries in America? |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, think about all those little kids curled up with |
| 1:12.1 | picture books, all those elders reading the day's paper, all those people job searching |
| 1:17.1 | on a public computer. These, of course, are the iconic images of public libraries, but there's |
| 1:22.2 | a less known or understood aspect of your favorite place to check out a totally free book, |
| 1:27.3 | and that is the Board of Trustees. |
| 1:30.3 | Yep, libraries are governed by a local crew of volunteer board members who make sure the money is being spent with integrity, |
| 1:37.3 | and the library's leadership is on it. In fact, all nonprofit organizations are required to have such boards. |
| 1:44.8 | So when you look around your community at all the beautiful work being done, the YMCA's, |
| 1:49.3 | the Girl Scouts, the community garden programs, there are committed board members making sure |
| 1:54.5 | everyone stays on mission. |
| 1:57.2 | Best case scenario, boards are kind of like the secret superhero teams of our communities. |
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