Marla Cornelius, CompassPoint (Feb. 20, 2015)
Whether it’s stated explicitly or not, every board has a culture. Your board culture might be fostering good governance and supporting positive engagement or it might be hindering it. At the board level, culture is expressed in myriad ways, including, but not limited to how meetings ….
Lalita Advani & Julia Chu, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Most successful companies recognize the value of motivating employees to contribute their time and talent to benefit their community. Often, however, company leaders grapple with the question of how to maximize the benefits of corporate involvement in volunteer efforts of that kind….
Tivoni Devor, Nonprofit Quarterly (March 5, 2015)
Within BoardSource’s 2014 Governance Index, “Leading with Intent,” there lies an interesting paradox when it comes to board diversity. Forty-five percent of the boards and 69 percent of the CEOs surveyed are dissatisfied with their board’s diversity. Not only that, but 71 percent of boards and 75 percent of CEOs think a more diverse board would make them better at fulfilling their mission…
Nonprofit CEOs and board chairs think boards do an okay job, assigning their own boards an average grade of “B-,” Â a new report from BoardSource finds. Based on a survey of more than eight hundred nonprofit CEOs and board chairs, the report…
David Stabler, The Oregonian (Jan. 27, 2015)
Board members of non-profit organizations earned a B- grade for their effectiveness leading social service, arts and other agencies, according to a national report.
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Ruth McCambridge, Nonprofit Quarterly (Jan. 27, 2015)
According to the 2014 BoardSource Governance Index, is your board out of step with the norm? In some cases, these norms may reflect good standards of practice; in others, not so much.