How Effective Is Your Board?
Take this free 10 minute assessment to evaluate your board’s strengths across strategy, governance, fundraising, management, and program oversight.
Struggles With Your Board? You're Not Alone.
Many boards are committed and engaged—but still struggle with common challenges that limit their effectiveness. You may be experiencing:
- Struggles recruiting members
- Unclear roles between board and staff
- Unfocused meetings that get nothing done
- Difficulty prioritizing what matters most
- No fundraising help
- Lack of clarity on how to measure success or impact
- Over-reliance on a small number of board members
What You'll Learn:
You’ll be scored against the following key areas:
Strategy
How effectively your board sets priorities, plans for the future, and aligns decisions with mission and impact.
Governance
How clearly your board fulfills its oversight responsibilities, roles, policies, and accountability functions.
Fundraising
How engaged and prepared your board is to support organizational sustainability and resource development.
Board Management
How well your board is structured, organized, and functioning internally.
Program Oversight
How effectively your board monitors mission alignment, quality, and organizational impact.
How this Scorecard Helps You
You may already have a committed and engaged board. The challenge is ensuring that effort is aligned, focused, and translating into effective governance.
You might be thinking:
- “We have strong people on the board, but we’re not always clear on roles or priorities.”
- “Our meetings feel busy, but I’m not sure we’re focused on the right things.”
- "We want to be more strategic, but we keep getting pulled into operations.”
In many organizations, boards are not ineffective because of lack of commitment—but because of lack of clarity, structure, and alignment.
This assessment provides a structured way to evaluate how your board is functioning across key areas, and whether gaps in governance, strategy, or execution may be limiting your effectiveness.
Gain Clarity. Demonstrate Your Impact. Secure More Funding.
Developed by Common Good Data, advisors to nonprofit and public sector organiations across the Southeast and beyond.
Learn more at www.commongooddata.com