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Nonprofit Board of Directors |
by Carter McNamara, MBA, PhD, partner in Authenticity Consulting, LLC
-- Leonard Zych, Executive Director, Executive Service Corps of San Antonio
There are already plenty of publications about nonprofit Boards. Some publications provide basic, introductory overviews of Boards. There are many small publications that provide practical suggestions about one certain Board practice, for example, how to staff a Board or how to evaluate a Board. Some publications contain highly reflective and even inspirational discussions about the type of governance needed for the 21st Century. If you "boiled down" the information in these publications to the most practical suggestions and then added a lot of other practical suggestions and materials, as well, you'd end up with our Field Guide.
This guide is very useful to start a Board or to fix a currently struggling Board. In our experience over the years, Boards rarely struggle because they don't understand advanced concepts. Rather, Boards struggle because they have not mastered, or they have gotten away from, the fundamentals. This guide will help your Board to establish and always maintain mastery of the fundamentals. Guidelines are written in an easy-to-implement style, resulting in a highly practical resource that can be referenced at any time during the life of a nonprofit Board and organization.
To View Detailed Table of Contents of Board Book
- Click here.
Also notice our nuts-and-bolts
training for Board members. Click
here.
Our Other Useful Nonprofit Publications
- Field Guide to Nonprofit Strategic Planning and Facilitation
- Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision for Nonprofit Staff
- Field Guide to Nonprofit Program Design, Marketing and Evaluation
- The above three guidebooks, and this Board book, are offered together at a discount in our Nonprofit Capacity Building Toolkit(SM).)
- Field Guide to Consulting and Organizational
Development With Nonprofits
(book is for consultants and internal leaders)
Other Authors' Publications for Nonprofit Organizations
Our Nonprofit Board Development Services and Training
- We provide nonprofit Board development
services, including customizing the process to suit the nature
and needs of your nonprofit. To learn about our approach to consultation,
click
here. - We also provide a training session, Nuts and Bolts of Developing and Operating Boards of Directors, which helps attendees to start and operate their Board -- or to fix a struggling Board. That training can be customized to suit your nonprofit, as well.
Pricing for Each Board Guide
- Don't be the only expert Board resource in your organization!
- Make sure all of your Board members and your Chief Executive have this guide.
- $30.00 each. Published May, 2003, 189 pages. Comb-binding.
Carefully Consider Getting Companion Guide for Executive Directors, As Well
- The Executive Director often is the person who first organizes the Board, and in many cases, helps the Board to do its job.
- Therefore, carefully consider getting the Field Guide to Leadership and Supervision for Nonprofit Staff. Having both guides will ensure that the Board and Executive Director are working "from the same page".
To Order Your Guides
Note on intellectual property
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