Doing Good Even Better : : how to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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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).

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