You can find many articles and tip sheets defining the roles of board chairs and executive directors, including those admonishing board chairs that it’s their role to “support” the nonprofit’s executive director.
What’s the secret sauce in great funder/nonprofit relationships? Here’s a crowdsourced “recipe” straight from the participants in four programs we co-hosted with Exponent Philanthropy.
I doubt there is a single definition of success for nonprofit collaborations, but here’s my take: a collaboration is successful if the parties are eager to work together again.
