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Vital Voices:
Lessons Learned from Board Members of Color

View the Report While more than 86 percent of board members of color recently surveyed said they either almost always or often feel comfortable voicing their opinions at meetings, 13 percent said...
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Case Study: Failing to
Use the Board

What’s wrong: The chief executive fails to use the time, talent, and treasure of the board for constructive purposes. Why this is a problem: As the authors of Governance as Leadership have...
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If You Can Order at Starbucks,
You Can Ask for a Gift

It seems I always hear the same response from board members when I ask why they're reluctant to ask for a contribution: they are unsure of what to say. ...
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