Board Management, Engagement, and Online Portal

Most Nonprofit boards engage their boards at board meetings, which are often four times per year. Four engagement opportunities a year doesn’t do much toward engaging board members and maximizing their contributions of time, talent, and treasure. Nobody joins a board to fail – but that’s what’s happening when Nonprofits rely on board meetings as the primary tool for board engagement.

With Affnetz Board Management, Engagement, and Online Portal you will engage board members between meetings and throughout the year. Imagine the possibilities if your board committees are active between board meetings, and provide input on programs, finance, fundraising, and other matters – rather than just at planned meetings?

Affnetz understands how vital board engagement is to Nonprofits. This is why Affnetz Board Management, Engagement, and Online Portal is standard with our offerings. This also means your board engagement software is integrated with your CRM, fundraising efforts, report generation, and overall task management – all under one roof. This saves staff time from having to learn multiple systems and cobble data together from different systems. It also ensures your board members have a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all their board activities.

Board members are granted permission-based access to select areas of the software that provides them with one centralized and online location for their involvement with the organization. Each board member is a part of the overall board working group, as well as any committees with which they are involved.

Affnetz Board Management, Engagement, and Online Portal contains an array of features that combine to streamline operations and support excellent board management.

First, each board member is designated as a board member. In doing this, data related to each board member is captured and used across all of Affnetz’s integrated service offerings.

Second, Affnetz facilitates board engagement through an online portal that helps keep board members organized and engaged. This online portal provides storage for documents and reports, and all communications can be generated and are captured in the portal. This helps maximize each board member’s time and contributions to the Nonprofit, as they no longer must search their email box and hope they have the most current document, wonder if they missed an email to the board, and manage paper documents like board packets, Board members also have access to other Work Groups, so they can stay engaged in their board committee assignment/s (e.g., Fundraising, Programs, Facilities, Finance, Executive, etc.), and other committee service (e.g. Campaign Committee, Events, etc.).

Third, board members depend on accurate and timely information to fulfill their responsibilities. Affnetz Reporting allows Nonprofits to build, save, and automate the delivery of their own reports with an easy-to-use interface. This ensures Board Members get the right information at the right time.

Automated report generation is a breeze since the Affnetz Board Management, Engagement, and Online Portal is part of a one software platform that houses Affnetz Comprehensive Reporting. Which is also integrated to other key areas like fundraising, stakeholder management, and task management. This dramatically increases efficiency for staff as well as effectiveness in that they don’t have to cobble together disparate data from numerous software programs and then paste and format the software in separate board software. This frees up countless hours of staff time that can then be dedicated to higher payoff tasks like major donor solicitations, outcomes tracking, etc.

Fourth, Affnetz Task Management helps to keep tasks assigned to the board and individual board members organized in one central location, and encourages engagement and accountability.