Tools to Help Boards Lead Through Tech

Free tools to help nonprofit leaders, funders, and partners build tech fluency and strategic capacity.

Building the Board We Need Now: SF Dispatch

What can my board do that AI can't? Thirty nonprofit CEOs, funders, and board chairs spent an afternoon in San Francisco on that question. The first dispatch from our 2026 field research, with Okta and AWS.

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Building the Leadership Nonprofits Need to Make AI Work.

A new co-publication of Board.Dev and Dell Technologies based on a national nonprofit survey—a hard look at why the sector is stuck and what leadership teams can do about it.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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