The Core Competencies of Nonprofit Chief Executives

According to Boardsource.org, there are six core competencies that every nonprofit executive must have.

1. Planning– strategy creation, together with the board.
2. Fundraising–leads fundraising, together with the board.
3. Administration–the CEO is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the organization and works with his team to create and manage strategy and systems that ensure effective operation.
4. Board relations–the board supervises the CEO. He or she together with the board provides leadership for the organization.
5. Communications and public relations. The CEO is the spokesperson and face of the organization and works to build relationships with key stakeholders outside the organization to facilitate the accomplishment of the organization’s goals.
6. Financial management–the CEO must make sure that the organization’s resources are properly managed. To do so, he or she must 1) institute excellent budgeting and accounting practices and systems, 2) put in place good financial controls, and 3) protect the organization’s assets through appropriate risk-management strategies.

To read more, visit: https://boardsource.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6-compentencies-NP-CEO.pdf

About the Author

Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin.

Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.

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