Showing posts with label NPBoardEffectiveness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPBoardEffectiveness. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 08, 2014

12 Reasons Why You Should Gracefully Resign from a Nonprofit Board | Nonprofit Law Blog

12 Reasons Why You Should Gracefully Resign from a Nonprofit Board | Nonprofit Law Blog: Are you a valuable and valued board member for a nonprofit? If not, a graceful resignation and reassignment may be good for you and the organization.


12 reasons why you should resign from a nonprofit board:

Thursday, October 06, 2011

Who's Really in Charge of Board Performance? - Against the Grain - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Who's Really in Charge of Board Performance? - Against the Grain - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Ask people in the nonprofit world who is to blame for poor board performance, and you won’t get agreement. Some people say it’s the board’s fault. Others say it’s the CEO’s.

Rarely do these conflicting ideas get argued in public. But at the annual meeting of BoardSource, I had the opportunity to debate the point in front of an audience. Two-person teams argued opposing points of view on that and other controversial topics. At the conclusion of our comments, the audience voted.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Do We Expect Too Much From Boards? - Against the Grain - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Do We Expect Too Much From Boards? - Against the Grain - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Nonprofit board members did not get very high marks from their executive directors in the recently released “Daring to Lead 2011” report.

The report, produced by the Meyer Foundation and CompassPoint, is based on a national survey of more than 3,000 executive directors of small to midsize nonprofit organizations. (I’m a vice president at Meyer and a co-author of the report.)"