Nonprofit Board Member Term Limits: How Long is Too Long?

In the course of our work here at Foundation Group, we get lots of questions from clients and prospective clients every day. What we find is that all those questions generally follow patterns. That’s another way of saying we get a lot of the same questions over and over. And one of the questions we field all the time is the question about board service. How long should someone serve on a nonprofit board of directors? That’s our topic of the day, so let’s get into it.

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•BLOG ARTICLE: Term Limits: https://boardsource.org/resources/ter...

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0:00 Introduction
1:12 No Fixed Limits at the Federal Level
1:39 Best Practices
2:39 Pros of Term Limits
4:11 Cons of Term Limits
5:03 Other Considerations – Churches
5:49 Other Considerations – Micro Charities
6:59 Conclusion