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Nonprofit
Management Programs
Nonprofit
Board Governance — Accountability at the Top
July 17, 2008
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Effective boards are critical to a nonprofit's success. While
boards provide the legal governance structure for an organization,
they rarely fulfill their responsibilities or potential. This
course focuses on means and methods to enable boards to maximize
organizational effectiveness. Participants will learn how
to assess and improve the effectiveness of a board, the executive
director and top management, and the overall governance structure
of the organization. Participants will also learn to better
recognize typical governance problems and the best practices
for dealing effectively with their successful resolution,
including several drawn from the for-profit sector.
Who
should Attend?
- Executive
Directors/CEOs, and active board members
- Those
responsible for governance of nonprofit organizations
What
Methods Will We Use?
- Lectures
develop core governance concepts
- Case
methods will facilitate analysis of common governance problems
- Group
problem solving/role playing exercises
- Best
practices benchmarking
What
Will Participants Learn?
- How
nonprofits are governed, and potential for improvement
- Changing
roles/responsibilities of board, staff, and volunteers
- Strategies
to maximize the effectiveness of boards/individual board
members
- Application
of successful governance strategies from business to nonprofits
Take-Aways
- How
to deal more effectively with common governance issues
- How
to think strategically about governance and board dynamics
- How
to use the governance structure to improve the overall organization's
effectiveness
Academic
Directors: Anne
Cohn Donnelly
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