Resources
Board Brief: AI Adoption + Policy
A 3-month action plan to help nonprofit boards lead on AI strategy, policy, and ethics. This brief offers practical guidance, key questions, and concrete steps to support human-centered, mission-aligned AI adoption without requiring boards to be tech experts. Use it to set values-based guardrails, boost tech fluency, and make confident decisions in a rapidly evolving landscape.
The Tech 28
A set of 28 essential questions to help nonprofit boards and CEOs start strategic conversations about technology, risk, and innovation. Use The Tech 28 to align your board, strengthen decision-making, and make tech a core part of your organization’s mission and impact.
Tech Board Role Description Template
Need a board member with tech expertise? Use this editable template to quickly draft and post a compelling role description that attracts the right candidates.
Interview Guide: Tech Board Candidates
A practical, structured tool to help you lead more effective interviews with prospective tech board members. It covers four key areas: experience and skills, approach, motivation and fit, and expectations.
Download the guide to strengthen your board recruitment process.
The Tech Governance Playbook
Our free Tech Governance Playbook provides everything you need to know about how nonprofits leverage tech executives to maximize their impact. Download now to learn how you can start making change right now.
The Research
Why are tech leaders so important to the success of nonprofits?
Read the latest from our cofounders in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
Guide: Finding Board Members
Our free guide walks you through all the steps you'll need to find and recruit potential board members via LinkedIn, using your greatest resource: your current board members.
Upcoming events
Upcoming events
August 21st @ 2:00pm ET | Zoom
Who’s Driving AI? Why Nonprofit Leadership Matters More Than Ever
Join us and the authors of the new book AI for Nonprofits: Putting Artificial Intelligence to Work for Your Cause, for a candid, practical conversation about what leaders need to know now.
Whether you’re a nonprofit executive, board member, fundraiser, or systems thinker, this session will help you engage with AI in ways that are mission-aligned, ethical, and grounded in real-world experience.
Co-authors Cheryl Contee and Darian Rodriguez Heyman will share insights from their research and interviews with 50+ nonprofit innovators, plus frameworks, tools, and examples you can apply right away.
Register hereAugust 26th @ 1:00pm ET | Zoom
Tech Buy-In Starts Here: A CEO’s Guide to Board Engagement
Learn how to engage your board in unlocking the full strategic, financial, and mission value of your tech investments.
What if your board could help you fund your tech priorities, navigate risk, and drive long-term transformation?
For many nonprofit leaders, technology strategy feels like a solo act. But it doesn’t have to be. Most boards want to help — they just need better tools and clearer expectations. When boards understand their role in tech governance, they become powerful allies: opening doors to funding, championing digital priorities, and strengthening your organization’s ability to adapt and lead.
Join TechSoup and Alethea Hannemann, CEO of Board.Dev, for a practical conversation about how to engage your board in tech governance: not as an extra step, but as a force multiplier.
Register here
