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Historian and Yale University professor Peter Dobkin Hall connects the history and evolution of boards to contemporary governance challenges by discussing the earlier models of board governance, including the boards of the Massachusetts Bay Company and Harvard, the origins of stakeholder representation on boards at Yale, as well as the challenge of maintaining accountability and board members' fiduciary responsibilities.
This booklet is ideal for classroom use, students of nonprofit...
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Learn the basics of serving on the board of a grassroots organization. This book teaches basic legal and fiduciary responsibilities, management and leadership, and collective individual duties that are essential to your new organization. Discover the 10 jobs common to boards of all-volunteer organizations. Co-published with CompassPoint.
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The support and participation of an organization's board members is critical to a capital campaign's success. In fact, if the board is uncertain about the viability of the campaign or its value to the organization, the campaign should not move forward. Producing income is not the only function of a capital campaign. It mobilizes volunteer leadership, brings a focus to fundraising efforts, generates higher visibility in the community, and can boost the morale of everybody involved.
Capital...
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National federated organizations are among the most visible nonprofit organizations and most likely to have unique and multilayered governance structures. Many of them have experienced confusion and challenges in finding the best option to govern effectively. This study funded by the Aspen Institute Nonprofit Research Fund and the Lilly Endowment was conducted to help us learn more about the complexities of the federated system. Authors Candace Widmer and Susan Houchin discuss the findings of...
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Since its creation in 1804, The New-York Historical Society has been charged with preserving books, artwork, and other material related to the history of New York and the United States. As early as 1824, the society began to struggle with financial and administrative crises, even briefly closing its doors because of a lack of funds and support.
Author Kevin Guthrie examines the importance of a clear mission and proper endowment management that can be learned by studying the history of...
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This booklet offers insights from board chairs and chief executives of 16 established nonprofit organizations. They describe how they weathered the changes their organizations have faced, and, more importantly, what they’d do differently if they had the benefit of hindsight. These nonprofit leaders from across the spectrum talk openly about how they and their organizations have surmounted such challenges as
changes in board composition, including evolving from a grassroots board...
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More than five years ago, BoardSource conducted the first nationwide study of nonprofit board diversity. The results were published in Building Board Diversity; a guide to creating boards that are more inclusive. This guide has been used by thousands of nonprofit organizations since its publication in 1994. This Board Diversity Project, completed by BoardSource, along with subsequent BoardSource surveys, established baseline data and highlighted the subject of diversity, while at the same time...
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People join the boards of charitable organizations for many reasons, but the opportunity to do fundraising is rarely one of them. In fact, while it shouldn’t, the prospect of seeking financial contributions may frighten and intimidate many board members. Despite those feelings, many charitable organizations rely on donations, and the board’s role in obtaining them is crucial — especially major gifts.
Board members are highly effective solicitors of major gifts from...
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This publication is intended to educate board members about what fraud is, how to prevent it to the greatest extent possible, and how to deal with it should it occur. The responsibility of leadership to protect their organizations makes it critical that board members be fully aware of this elusive and dangerous threat.
The concept of fraud covers a wide variety of illicit or inappropriate activities. What these activities have in common is that they involve intentional deception resulting in...
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One day the phone rings and an old college friend on the other end says to you, "I'm concerned. Lately we've been getting job applicants at my factory who don't know how to read. I think something needs to be done in our community to make sure that we have a literate workforce. I'm interested in starting a nonprofit literacy organization. Would you like to help me and serve on the board?" Helping people to read sounds like a worthy cause, and you like the idea of doing something good...
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