BOARDS of directorsEDUCATIONAL leadershipThis article is a book review of "Governance for Nonprofits: A Board of Directors Guide to a Profitable Not-for-Profit Corporation" by Ted E. DeGroot. The reviewer, Stuart C. Mendel, believes that the book will be useful for no...
All nonprofit organizations are required to have a board consisting of at least three directors. During registration at the state level, nonprofits must supply the names and home addresses of each founding director. Directors may not serve if they are cu
As a collective body that’s likely to have strong opinions, it’s important for boards of directors to provide some type of structure for their advisory councils so that their meetings are useful and productive. It’s helpful for advisory councils to have policies of their own, just as boar...
Changes in the economy and society often create a need for nonprofits to change their missions. Only the board of directors can change a nonprofit’s mission, and that must occur with a majority vote. This isn’t a step that nonprofit boards take lightly, as the founding directors put much...
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About Us Board Checkup, Self-Assessment Software Services (SASS) Inc. is a Software as a Service (SaaS) Company with the mission of helping boards of directors of non-profit organizations self-regulate and improve leadership and governance effectiveness through the practice of online performance ass...
California law sets forth several rules that only apply to directors of a nonprofit corporation. For example, a nonprofit board cannot have more than 49 percent of its current directors be "interested persons" as defined in Corporations Code section 5227, which includes any person receiving compensa...
innovationorganizationsdirectorsnonprofitboardpreliminary ORIGINALPAPER BoardofDirectorsandInnovationinNonprofit OrganizationsModel:PreliminaryEvidence fromNonprofitOrganizationsinDevelopingCountries KristinaJaskyte Publishedonline:3September2014 ÓInternationalSocietyforThird-SectorResearchandTheJohnsHopkinsUniversity2014 ...
For example, some rules are intended to prevent abuse of board power, director conduct that indicates a conflict of interest, using insider information for financial gain, selling one's votes for personal gain to outside interests, or attempting to sway other directors' votes to benefit an outs...
Based on data collected from a cross section of Canadian nonprofit organizations, the results show a positive association between the perception of board effec tiveness and the use of many of the most widely advocated prescriptions on how a nonprofit board of directors should operate. However, ...