Outsourced governance support and executive services for social purpose organizations
Welcome to Hummingboard. We work with founders, EDs/CEOs, and boards of nonprofits, charities, and foundations across Canada. It is our goal to build and manage governance cycles that drive strategy, deepen accountability to equity and justice, and give high-impact leaders more time back for your missions, teams, and lives.
In the weeds?
We understand.
Hummingboard was created to help busy, passionate for-purpose leaders keep your organization’s governance and strategic oversight processes humming, so you can have more of what’s most important: your time.
Time to focus, time for rest, time for your family and friends, time for your team, time to learn and grow.
More time to collaborate with your peers and lead the thoughtful, transformational work our world needs.
“I’ve been on both sides of non-profit governance, as an executive director and a board member. Establishing and maintaining solid governance is crucial, yet time consuming, in order to do it thoroughly and thoughtfully. But time spent on governance doesn’t directly create impact or bring in revenue either, so in my ED role, governance always tended to be my 5-9pm, after the urgent work of the day was done. I’m hearing that I am not alone, and the data is telling us that EDs and volunteer board members alike are stretched. We’re living through a pivotal time of overdue transformation and change: I started Hummingboard to help social purpose leaders keep critical governance cycles on track, so they can have more time to lead, and more time for their lives.”
Holly McLellan, Founder and Principal, Hummingboard
