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If Your Board Looked Like Your Community
people to share their ideas and fears,” advises Mildred García, Pacific Symphony Board Member.
Cornerstone Community Board Member Ceci Dominguez described her experience of joining her first board, “I didn’t even know what a board was really or what a board member was supposed to...
Creating A Board That Works
more connected to the work.
It comes down to what I call the illness: “the ignorance factor.” All too often, board members do not understand the full breadth of responsibilities that come with board service, so something as simple as crafting a short Board...
Governance Committees: More and More Common
board members
Identify and recruit people for board officer positions, and manage officer elections, which may involve bringing a slate of officers to the board
Pay attention to the integration of new board members
Conduct an assessment of the board’s performance, perhaps as a...Four Ways to Remove a Board Member
way to ease ineffective board members off the board. Opponents of term limits believe that, with proper board leadership, errant board members can be guided toward either improving their behavior or quietly resigning from the board. (The difficult part is ensuring “proper board leadership” over many years.)
Whether or...
Loans From Nonprofit Board Members
board members lending money should be excused from the vote.
If all or the majority of board members are lending money, the loans and the legal documents should be accepted by roll-call vote of the board and recorded in the minutes. Make sure the lending board members understand...The Governance/Support Model for Nonprofit Boards
Much of the confusion about board responsibilities is confusion between what the board does (as a body) and what individual board members should do. Most of the prescriptions for boards confuse the two , saying “The board should _____” without making the distinction . This straightforward model for boards
...The Nonprofit Board’s Role in HR
concerns with the board chair. When other board members hear such complaints, they have a responsibility to direct the staff person to the board chair. By making the board chair the sole recipient of such charges,the board can prevent a disgruntled staff member from trying to develop allies on the...
Should Staff Contact with the Board Be Restricted?
in HR
What are the Board’s Responsibilities with Volunteers? Should the Board Hold Executive Sessions?Jan Masaoka is Editor in Chief of Blue Avocado. She was once worked for a nonprofit where staff were forbidden to talk to the board, and she still remembers...
How Did This Happen? Part 2 of the Vanguard Foundation Story
...Blue Avocado that they were concerned about the direction of the foundation even prior to the Mouli investment scheme, but the board seems to have been characterized by a general passivity. Board meetings became scarce, with rarely more than one face-to-face board meeting in a year, and agendas were more...
A Fresh Look at Diversity and Boards
especially African Americans — as a way to increase minority attendance. Although everyone on the board likes the idea of a more demographically diverse board, several board members are skeptical that an African American professional would be interested in raising money (which is the primary activity of this board). But...