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  • Compensating Nonprofit Directors – Trend or Taboo?

    This article addresses high-level legal concerns facing public charities and private foundations as they consider whether and how to compensate their directors. (Robinson Bradshaw)

    Compensating Nonprofit Directors – Trend or Taboo?

  • Code of Ethics for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Organizations

    2020 statement of values and code of ethics for nonprofit and philanthropic organizations from Independent Sector.

     

  • Checklist for the Most Important Provisions of Your Bylaws

    This document will help you to fine-tune your bylaws, making sure to include each of these elements as detailed.

     

  • Using Executive Transition Management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity

    The Annie E. Casey Foundation's report, Capturing the Power of Leadership Change: Using Executive Transition management to Strengthen Organizational Capacity, highlights the challenges associated with executive transitions and describes a model of executive management transition.

  • Board-Staff Interaction: What's Acceptable, What's Not?

    Without meaning to, many nonprofits put their boards on imaginary pedestals, which leaves many employees — especially new employees — unsure about how to approach board members. This compilation of FAQs helps explain the intricacies (and the benefits) of the board–staff partnership. (BoardSource)

    Board-Staff Interaction: What’s Acceptable, What's Not? You Ask, We Answer

     

  • Board Passages: Three Stages in a Nonprofit Board's Lifecycle

    Boards are not — and should not — be static. To be effective, they must change and evolve as their organizations change and grow. Many years ago, Karl Mathiasen III wrote a paper for BoardSource in which he identified three different and quite distinct types of nonprofit boards that develop as their organizations grow and change, including

  • Board Manual Contents

    What Goes into a Board Manual? - The foundation of a committed, knowledgeable, and effective board is orientation and education. As an essential companion to orientation and education, every organization should have a thorough, easy-to-use manual that board members can use throughout their terms. (BoardSource)

     

  • Example Executive Director Emergency Backup Plan

    The primary goal of emergency succession planning is to prepare an organization for the unplanned absence or departure of a key manager. Nonprofit organizations can adapt this sample emergency backup succession plan (Raffa, formerly TransitionGuides) for appointing an acting executive director, president or chief executive offider in the event of an unplanned leave.

  • Executive Director Evaluation Survey Form

    Board evaluations of executive directors (CEOs) are different from all other performance evaluations in an organization. This difference – especially the limited ability of board members to observe the executive – represents many of the primary reasons why 45% of executives have not been reviewed in the previous year according to CompassPoint's "Daring to Lead" 2011 study.

  • Executive Transition Series by The Annie E. Casey Foundation

    This 2004-2008 series of publications on executive transition management was funded in part by the Casey Foundation and the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund. It features ten reports on topics related to leadership change--using interim directors, "founder's syndrome," how boards can be proactive, and more.

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