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Board Cafe: Meaningful Acts of Appreciation for Boards and Staff – 7 Do’s and 2 Don’t’s
"We [board members] do this huge amount of work, and we're volunteers, but the staff never seems to have any response but criticism for us not doing more!""I'm the executive director, and the board just seems to focus on what we …
Abolish Board Committees?
A fresh and radical idea: consider eliminating all (or most) of your board committees. Too many boards are bogged down by committees that are inactive or maybe even semi-fictitious. And board members can feel compelled to be on three or four committees …
Reasons to have – and reasons not to have – an attorney on the board
"We should have an attorney on the board." It's conventional wisdom we've all heard. We expect that an attorney would bring legal expertise (so we won't thave to pay a lawyer) and that she'll have a skill set, personality, and …
