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Board Roles & Responsibilities
Board Roles & Responsibilities
Despite the voluntary nature of the board member, it is important to remember that these groups of people – and thus the individuals that comprise them – have many roles and significant responsibilities. These resources talk about those roles and responsibilities and may be useful to share with your board.
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Posted on: January 29, 2018
Topics: Featured Nonprofit Quarterly’s Executive Transition Webinar Series
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly Nonprofit Quarterly's 4-part webinar series on executive transitions is a great resource for all nonprofits that want to ensure they remain stable and sustainable during a leadership transition.
Posted on: June 29, 2015
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities | Executive | Executive Transition | Human Resources | Leadership | Planning | Sustainability Exit Agreements for Nonprofit CEOs: A Guide for Boards and Executives
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly Nonprofit Quarterly breaks down the circumstances leading to, types of, and key considerations for CEO exit agreements.
Posted on: March 31, 2015
Topics: Best Practice | Board Roles & Responsibilities | Executive Transition When in Crisis, What Should Boards Do?
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly In recent weeks and months, there have been a series of crises in organizations ranging from data breaches at Target, Michaels, and Chase to the sexual abuse scandals at Penn State and domestic violence in the NFL. In many of these cases, although the boards of directors were not blamed directly, they often came under fire for not having paid close enough attention to see the crises coming or for reacting too slowly. It is no surprise, then, articles have begun to appear addressing how a board should act before, during and after a crisis.
Posted on: October 9, 2014
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities | Leadership Board Member Contract Template
Source: CompassPoint A Sample Board Member Contract that can be a starting point for developing your own contract so that all board members clearly understand and agree to uphold their responsibilities.
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Posted on: May 2, 2013
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities Role of Boards Critical During Crisis
Source: Philanthropy Journal While the responsibilities of nonprofit board members do not change when the economy tanks, trying times do bring those duties into sharper focus. This article reviews some of the responsibilities that may get more scrutiny at times like these.
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Posted on: May 2, 2013
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities The Governance / Support Model for Nonprofit Boards
Source: Blue Avocado Much of the confusion about board responsibilities is confusion between what the board does as a body and what individual board members should do. This article looks at the two fundamentally different types of nonprofit board responsibility: governance and support.
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Posted on: May 1, 2013
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities Board Self-Assessment Questionnaire
The Board Self-Assessment Questionnaire—available as an online tool—allows nonprofit boards to assess their effectiveness in 12 aspects of governance, ranging from board-staff roles to external relations practices. This tool has been used by hundreds of boards and thousands of board members throughout the US and abroad since 2009.
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Posted on: March 1, 2013
Topics: Online Tools Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards
Source: BoardSource What are the basic responsibilities of nonprofit boards? This list from BoardSource offers a quick easy reference that you can use in your boardroom.
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Posted on: February 28, 2013
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities Distinguishing a Board’s Steering and Rowing Work
Source: Nonprofit Quarterly As described in the book Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards, to govern comprehensively, boards work in three modes: fiduciary, strategic, and generative. To use a metaphor in which an organization is a boat, boards can make two distinct types of contributions: steering and rowing.
Posted on: January 30, 2012
Topics: Board | Board Roles & Responsibilities | Leadership 
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