With our nation’s cyber security on many people’s minds, now is an appropriate time to think about the security of our own organizations, missions, and stakeholders. The National Risk Management Center shares its expertise and advice with the BoardSource community in this members-only resource.
Early January is a good time to ask your board members to sign their annual conflict-of-interest statements and disclose potential known conflicts. Educating your board members about potential and perceived conflicts of interest, having appropriate policies and procedures in place, and ensuring that these policies are respected are the beginning steps in eliminating bias from decision making and ensuring that your board is independent. Learn more in this free community resource.
With many sector leaders encouraging board leaders to step up their advocacy efforts in the months and years ahead, it pays to have a good story to tell about your organization and its work. Here’s some advice from Andy Goodman, director of The Goodman Center. (To learn more about board advocacy, visit Stand for Your Mission.)
More than 700 BoardSource members are connecting with each other via the BoardSource Exchange! With the BoardSource Exchange, you have the opportunity to construct a dialogue around hot topics, learn from others about what works best in certain situations, and more. Currently, some of the more active conversations revolve around new board member orientation, board vacancies and term limits, and board fundraising, but that barely scratches the surface of what’s being discussed. Log in at http://exchange.boardsource.org/home and join in. Don’t let a valuable resource — your fellow BoardSource members — go untapped.
Calling all charter school boards:BoardSource has partnered withCharter Board Partners, a nonprofit organization committed to strengthening the governance and quality of public charter schools, on a new membership program to support charter schools and their leaders.
For new and potential board members, staff and consultants who are new to working with a board, and others who want to understand the major building blocks of an effective board. The program covers the fundamental nonprofit governance concepts every nonprofit leader should understand.
Webinar 201 — Free to all members! Governance Has Its Virtues January 25 | 3:00–4:00 pm ET | Members $0 | Nonmembers $75
We tend to think of virtues — courage, generosity, good temper, modesty — as abstract and fuzzy, but in fact they can be very practical and offer concrete guidance for sound decision making. This webinar will provide resources and rationales for helping board members identify, cultivate, and practice virtues as they govern. The result will be an ethically sophisticated board.
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