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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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As part of the Governance Futures project, BoardSource and the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Governance at Harvard University set out to find boards that took a fresh look at governance. The 10 boards described in these case studies offer a creative lens through which to examine alternative governance structures and practices. These boards took risks based on their specific circumstances and an intimate knowledge of what practices worked - or didn't work - within their organizations....
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The bold purposes at the core of the Governance Futures: New Perspectives on Nonprofit Governance project are to discover, develop, and disseminate innovative governance strategies that vary significantly from conventional practices. In early planning discussions among research team members from BoardSource, the Hauser Center on Nonprofit Organizations, and the University at Albany, it was clear that a thorough review of the literature on governance should be one of the primary enterprises of...
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BoardSource periodically offers practitioner programs to help nonprofit and business leaders improve facilitation skills and increase their governance knowledge. The programs are designed for:
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