Board Development & Governance

Tools and resources to support excellence in nonprofit governance as well as board and staff leadership.

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BoardSource’s Library of Free Tools

BoardSource provides a library of free tools, including “Assessing Board Performance” and their series of Board Basics 101 publications.

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Board Development & Governance, COVID-19 Response

What Nonprofit Board Members Should Be Doing Right Now to Add...

BoardSource gives guidance on how the board members can provide steady and adaptive leaders...

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Board Development & Governance

Oak Foundation Governance Assessment Tool

Adriana Craciun, Senior Adviser of Organizational Development and Capacity building at the ...

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Board Development & Governance, COVID-19 Response

COVID-19 Decision Framework for Nonprofit Leaders and Boards

SeaChange has develop a resource to help nonprofit leaders and Board members to lead throug...

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Board Development & Governance, COVID-19 Response

How Nonprofits and Board Members Can Respond to COVID-19

Are you wondering what is the board’s role in a time of crisis? Or how can the board and ...

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Board Development & Governance, COVID-19 Response

What Nonprofit Board Members Should be Doing to Combat the CO...

As the world responds to the threats of COVID-19, many nonprofits and their boards are wres...

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Board Development & Governance

CEO Search Committee Guide

The Leading Edge is an alliance that helps Jewish nonprofits find and place leaders into se...

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Board Development & Governance, Capacity Building Basics

Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice Resource ...

Independent Sector’s Resource Center is the gateway to hundreds of free online tools ...

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Board Development & Governance

Raising the Bar for Nonprofit Boards

Nonprofit boards versus for-profit boards, and the idea that the two are distinctly differe...

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Board Development & Governance

8 Mistakes That Even Good Boards Make

Anne Wallestad, president and CEO of BoardSource, explains that even the best boards can...

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Board Development & Governance

Communicate Effectively to Create Better Board Relationships

BoardSource, blogger, Hardy Smith, writes about the significance of good communication bet...

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Board Development & Governance, Business and Strategic Planning, Capacity Building Basics, Organizational and Network Assessment

Strengthening Nonprofit Capacity: Core Concepts in Capacity B...

This publication gives funders more of the tools they need to offer capacity-building suppo...

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Board Development & Governance

Board Book Essentials

“Board Book Essentials” is a collection of the most important resources that Bo...

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Board Development & Governance

Resources Flowing to Your Nonprofit: Boards Can Help

Hiland Consulting, a consulting firm that specializes in board development, offers a number...

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Board Development & Governance

Board Transformation Toolkits

The Community Foundation for Monterey County’s Center for Nonprofit Excellence commi...

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Board Development & Governance

BoardSource’s Library of Free Tools

BoardSource provides a library of free tools, including “Assessing Board Performance...

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Board Development & Governance

Bridgespan’s Publications and Tools for Nonprofit Boards

This web site is dedicated to those who wish to learn more about nonprofit boards, serve o...

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Board Development & Governance

Carver’s Policy Governance Model in Nonprofit Organizat...

The Carver Model of Governance, developed by John and Miriam Carver, is a popular framework...

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Reflections from BoardSource Leadership Forum, October 2014
in Board Development & Governance

Last week I continued my walkabout in the wide world of non-profit organizational development by attending the BoardSource Leadership Forum in Washington DC. Relatively few Organizational Effectiveness grants are for board development, at least explicitly. It is the rare non-profit board that collectively wakes up one morning and says “Hey, we think that investing in…

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