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 "schema": "aiblocks-page/1",
 "id": "nonprofit-executive-board-report-writer",
 "type": "skill",
 "name": "Nonprofit executive board report writer",
 "summary": "Turn board goals and current results into a report with clear decisions and next steps.",
 "headline": "Nonprofit executive board report writer",
 "subhead": "Share board goals, checked results and open issues. Get a draft report with facts to review, choices to make, risks and owners for next steps.",
 "job": {
  "id": "lead-people",
  "name": "Lead and manage people"
 },
 "level": "intermediate",
 "thinking": "medium",
 "tested": true,
 "updated": "2026-10-28",
 "first_published": "2026-10-25",
 "inputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "dataset",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Dataset",
   "what": "data files to process or analyse, such as a CSV or JSON export, logs, lab or sensor files, with their format and where they came from"
  },
  {
   "type": "financial_statements",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Financial statements",
   "what": "a company's income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement, with notes, for one or more periods"
  },
  {
   "type": "plan",
   "required": false,
   "label": "Plan",
   "what": "a dated plan: what to do, in what order, with a decision rule for each step"
  }
 ],
 "outputs": [
  {
   "type": "document",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Document",
   "what": "a finished document, such as a Word file, a PDF or a page of notes"
  },
  {
   "type": "meeting_notes",
   "required": true,
   "label": "Meeting notes",
   "what": "an agenda, notes or decisions from a meeting"
  }
 ],
 "you_give": [
  "Your board's written goals, limits and expectations",
  "Your last board packet and dashboard",
  "Your approved budget and results so far",
  "Decisions the board must make at the next meeting",
  "Open risks and past commitments (optional)"
 ],
 "you_get": [
  "A board report that lists every decision requested at the top",
  "Results reported against your board's written limits, with problems named early",
  "A short narrative that does not repeat the dashboard",
  "A chair meeting agenda, executive-session notes or a self-evaluation memo",
  "A meeting debrief note with owners and follow-ups"
 ],
 "use_when": [
  "Your board packet is due and you need the executive narrative.",
  "You want talking points for the executive session.",
  "You need an agenda for your next call with the board chair.",
  "Your annual review is coming and you must write your own self-evaluation memo."
 ],
 "skip_when": [
  "You run the board itself, or write bylaws, committee plans or board job descriptions: use a board governance adviser or your board chair.",
  "You need a note for all staff or for funders: write it as a plain message from the executive, not as a board report.",
  "You are planning a CEO handover: use a transition plan with your board chair, not a board report."
 ],
 "output_sample": {
  "input": [
   "Your board's written goals, limits and expectations",
   "Your last board packet and dashboard",
   "Your approved budget and results so far",
   "Decisions the board must make at the next meeting",
   "Open risks and past commitments (optional)"
  ],
  "output": [
   {
    "name": "Decisions requested",
    "contains": "Each decision the board is asked to make at this meeting, in one sentence each, or a clear note that there are none."
   },
   {
    "name": "Generative question",
    "contains": "A real strategic question for the board to discuss, with why you raise it now and what input you want."
   },
   {
    "name": "Exception reporting",
    "contains": "Where you are inside or outside the board's written limits and goals, with the worst news stated early."
   },
   {
    "name": "Executive narrative",
    "contains": "A short story of what changed and why, tied to evidence, without repeating the dashboard in prose."
   },
   {
    "name": "What was left out",
    "contains": "Detail cut because the board cannot act on it, plus any appendix items marked read if interested."
   },
   {
    "name": "Chair 1:1 agenda or executive-session notes",
    "contains": "A standing call agenda or talking points for when staff and guests leave the room."
   },
   {
    "name": "Board-meeting debrief",
    "contains": "A post-meeting note to the chair with follow-ups, owners and commitments."
   }
  ]
 },
 "how_to_use": [
  "Open Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini and paste in the skill instructions. No code or paid tool is needed.",
  "Paste your goals, limits, last packet, dashboard, budget and open decisions.",
  "Say which item you want: board report, chair agenda, executive-session notes, self-evaluation or debrief.",
  "Check that the decisions block is on page one and that every number matches your own records.",
  "Fill any gap your AI marks as missing before you send the packet. Send it 5 to 7 days before the meeting.",
  "Your board report becomes part of the governance record, so have a person review it first."
 ],
 "checks": [],
 "next": [
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit board meeting and role planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-board-meeting-and-role-planner",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  },
  {
   "name": "Nonprofit change rollout planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-change-rollout-planner",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  },
  {
   "name": "One-on-one agenda and feedback planner",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/weekly-one-on-one-prep-keeper",
   "why": "Lead the team"
  },
  {
   "name": "Work commitment and follow-up writer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-work-keeper",
   "why": "Work commitment and follow-up writer"
  },
  {
   "name": "Executive meeting brief writer",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/executive-meeting-brief",
   "why": "Executive meeting brief writer"
  }
 ],
 "source": {
  "by": "sector-skills",
  "repo": "sector-skills/nonprofit-skills",
  "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/executive-leadership/nonprofit-ceo-board-partnership",
  "licence": "MIT",
  "original_name": "nonprofit-ceo-board-partnership",
  "commit": "7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8"
 },
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  {
   "title": "nonprofit-ceo-board-partnership skill",
   "by": "sector-skills",
   "url": "https://github.com/sector-skills/nonprofit-skills/tree/7d8a2ca9d471fc975d0e9ccd02fcdd66520fd1c8/nonprofit-skills-library/skills/executive-leadership/nonprofit-ceo-board-partnership",
   "used": "Original instructions and supporting files, with attribution and the MIT licence. Display copy describes the task."
  },
  {
   "title": "AI Blocks catalogue guidance",
   "by": "AI Blocks",
   "url": "https://useaiblocks.com",
   "used": "We added Before you start and After this sections that link to other AI Blocks steps. We refreshed those generated sections from the catalogue inputs and next-step links."
  }
 ],
 "files": [
  "LICENSE"
 ],
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  "markdown": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-executive-board-report-writer.md",
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  "instructions": "https://useaiblocks.com/skills/nonprofit-executive-board-report-writer/SKILL.md",
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