Doing good even better how to be an effective board member of a nonprofit organization
| Main Author: | Stoesz, Edgar. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Intercourse, PA :
Good Books,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Doing good even better begins with people
- Organizational greatness begins with people
- Growing great directors
- Helping directors become great leaders
- Making room for greatness
- Discussion questions
- Helping directors understand their governance role
- Distinguishing governance from management
- Defining the purpose
- Planning to fulfill the purpose
- Delegating responsibility for plan implementation
- Resourcing the plan
- Monitoring and evaluating
- Reporting back to the members
- Helping boards have better meetings
- Meetings: why have them?
- A strategic agenda
- Planning effective meetings
- Whose rules of order?
- Bad habits great boards overcome
- The role of the chair
- The role of recording
- Great boards have a good fight (occasionally)
- Discussion questions
- Great boards evaluate performance
- Great boards evaluate themselves
- Great boards evaluate program
- Great boards evaluate their CEO
- Discussion questions
- More tools to increase board effectiveness
- Governing through policies
- Buoys to guide management
- The board role in fund-raising
- Budget: a necessary management tool
- Caution about committees
- Committees-getting more with less
- Managing conflict constructively
- Working your way through a crisis
- Smelling salts for discouraged organizations
- Under the shadow of litigation
- Great board celebrate
- Leaving right
- Afterword
- Exhibits:
- A. Board self-evaluation: board responsibilities-the full scope
- B. Board self-evaluation: board duties-how well are we accomplishing them?
- C. Board self-evaluation: board meetings-our work together
- D. Director self-evaluation
- E. Suggestions for committees
- F. Writing effective proposals for board action
- G. CEO annual review outline
- H. CEO search checklist
- Suggestions for interviewing a candidate for the CEO position
- J. Governance guidelines (a model for a start-up).