Doing Good Better: How to Be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization (Good Books, now available) is a trusted handbook for nonprofit board member service. Now revised and newly updated with brand-new case studies, it comes packed with even more tips and ideas from the trenches of nonprofit board work. Edgar Stoesz has made Doing Good Better a necessary guidebook for nonprofit board members, no matter their experience level! Read more...

Independent Sector is pleased to honor the 12 outstanding leaders from IS member organizations that comprise the 2015 American Express NGen Fellows Program.  In its seventh year, this selective fellowship program continues to build the next generation of nonprofit and philanthropic leaders as part of IS’ NGen: Moving Nonprofit Leaders from Next to Now initiative. Read more...

The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the leading professional association in analytics and operations research, today announced it is launching a new initiative -- Pro Bono Analytics – in an effort to connect analytics experts with non-profit organizations seeking to improve how they achieve greater results by leveraging data and information. Read more...