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1. Paul Light on Governance Fads and Fancies
(eNewsletter/Letter from Ruth)
...lways amusing and illuminating Paul Light. He walks us through the various strains of thinking in the current governance hoopla, offers opinions on his favorites and makes suggestions about what you m...

2. Red Cross Crisis
(Special Articles/Web Articles)
... should certainly be among its responsibilities. But an organization so averse to introspection about its own governance is unlikely to be introspective about larger issues of organizational structure...

3. The Ethicist Spring 2008
(Past Issues/Leadership Without A Safety Net)
...t likely to cause embarrassment, look at the portfolios of mutual funds that use ESG (environment, social and governance) screens. It’s probably OK for you to cash the check of any corporation y...

4. Winter 2007 Table of Contents
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors)
... nonprofit sector’s flagship organizations and a cultural icon has another new strategy. Will it work? Governance Government Funding and Community Representation on Nonprofit Boards: The Bargai...

... this perspective runs counter to the truth. Creative disruption is neither understood nor welcome. Nonprofit Governance as Adaptive, Not Prescriptive For several decades, nonprofit boards have adopte...

...erless stakeholders whose concerns may be ignored. Therefore, we define community representation in nonprofit governance as the extent to which clients, volunteers, staff members, and neighborhood res...

... the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) demonstrate a limited learning curve when it comes to good governance. Despite the Smithsonian’s press assault to defend itself from critics, t...

...ards served from 2001 to 2005 on the University of North Carolina Board of Visitors, which is part of the UNC governance structure, providing advise to the trustees and chancellor on “maintainin...

...piece of Chamber hyperbole, Donohue described the removal of Greenberg as AIG’s CEO as “a case of governance overkill that threatened to destroy the U.S. financial system”. Terence C...

10. Whistle-Blowers by the Numbers
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors)
... to corporate self-regulators. 3. Cited in Michael D. Akers and Tim V. Eaton, “Whistleblowing and Good Governance,” the CPA Journal, June 2007. 4.  Dyck et al., p. 3 5.  Deborah...

11. Whistle-Blowers by the Numbers
(Special Articles/Web Articles)
... to corporate self-regulators. 3. Cited in Michael D. Akers and Tim V. Eaton, “Whistleblowing and Good Governance,” the CPA Journal, June 2007. 4.  Dyck et al., p. 3 5.  Deborah...

...t diversity, and what do you think nonprofits should be doing to increase the diversity of their staffing and governance? BECERRA: Intense concern. All of the studies indicate that people give to t...

13. Governance from the Ground Up (Jan 07)
(eNewsletter/Letter from Ruth)
...reiwirth who is the organization’s consultant. These two women share their experience in establishing a governance system for that organization that keeps it directly accountable to the communit...

14. Starr Crossed Foundation Dollars (Apr 07)
(Special Articles/Web Articles)
...sk force convened under the aegis of IS's Panel on the Nonprofit Sector read more like principles of self-governance than the architecture of a self-regulatory system. (I've written about the ...

15. The Whistle-blower: Policy Challenges For Nonprofits
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors)
...e first report of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector. Additionally, most best-practice guidelines on nonprofit governance include standard whistle-blower policies. It should be noted that most recommen...

16. The Whistle-blower: Policy Challenges For Nonprofits
(Special Articles/Web Articles)
...e first report of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector. Additionally, most best-practice guidelines on nonprofit governance include standard whistle-blower policies. It should be noted that most recommen...

17. NOT a Spin-Free Zone: Reflections on the Utility and Price of Nonprofit Spin
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Behaviors and Misbehaviors)
...can effectively self-regulate—as with Independent Sector’s recently published Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: A Guide for Charities and Foundations—we emphasize ...

...can effectively self-regulate—as with Independent Sector’s recently published Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice: A Guide for Charities and Foundations—we emphasize ...

19. Foundations’ Evolving Perspective of Evaluation
(Past Issues/Exploring Evaluation: What We Measure and Why)
... to undergo an independent organizational assessment, which examines strengths and weaknesses in all areas of governance and functioning. The goal of these assessments is to help the organization deve...

20. Who’s in Charge Here? Youth Leadership Enters the Boardroom
(Past Issues/Exploring Evaluation: What We Measure and Why)
...interactive and easier for young people to participate in. How did The Food Project develop its strong youth governance program? First, they got excited about youth involvement. Second, they learned ...

21. Can You Really Share Your Power?
(Past Issues/Job or Vocation? Exploring the Nonprofit Workplace)
... organizations, have mission statements that speak of participation and inclusiveness in programming. If your governance structure doesn’t reflect these values, are you being true to the mission...

22. Design Principles for Engaged Workplaces
(Past Issues/Job or Vocation? Exploring the Nonprofit Workplace)
... choose, participate and connect. Human resource systems and practices should be about opportunities for self-governance.” A partnership model such as the one proposed by Block would seem more ...

...l leadership and its capacity to develop a broad base of leadership for involvement in community and societal governance. Adult Attitudes as a Barrier “Storm and stress” is the dominant c...

24. Directors' and Officers' Coverage: Is It Worth It?
(Past Issues/In September\'s Wake: Uncertain Conditions Prevail)
...the name implies, indemnifies corporate officers against claims alleging intentional harm attributable to the governance or management practices of the organization. Directors' and officers' i...

25. Lessons from Crisis: New York City Nonprofits Post-September 11
(Past Issues/In September\'s Wake: Uncertain Conditions Prevail)
...nsider the impact of the crisis on mission, programs, funding, and so on. In fact, the Alliance For Nonprofit Governance published a comprehensive checklist for boards in the face of crisis that was a...

26. Building Effective Approaches to Governance
(Past Issues/Race & Power)
...n in-depth case study research, Gill reports mostboards mix and match quite successfully in their approach to governance andthat clarifying roles is much more important that the actual structure itsel...

27. Making Good Board Choices: A Competing Values Approach
(Past Issues/Financial Str(u/i)ctures)
...hair to make sure the board is aware of it and understands the need for balance, so that no one realm of good governance falls off the radar screen for so long that it becomes hard to pick back up as ...

28. A Gateway to 21st Century Governance: Are We Ready?
(Past Issues/A Powerful Vision: Governance Suited to Purpose)
...uctures. Once, when I was sitting with a board of a small, community-based organization, I asked my favorite governance question: to whom were they accountable? After some uncomfortable shifting, on...

...he publicity philanthropy needs.  These sorry stories revolve around four dimensions of foundation board governance: • Trustee fees • Trustee self-dealing • Trustee self-granting &...

...s you know, this has been part of the problem that the Red Cross has experienced in its now widely-criticized governance system, and lots of other nonprofit boards struggle with this issue as well. Ap...

31. Nonprofit Boards -- Secrets and Lies (Apr 07)
(eNewsletter/Letter from Ruth)
...ure you in scintillating discussion with some of this continent's most prominent researchers on nonprofit governance. To give you a sense of the quality of the dialogue that will be there, I have...

32. The Smithsonian Board Game (Jun 07)
(eNewsletter/Letter from Ruth)
As the summer issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly on the topic of governance goes to press, there are two interrelated situations unfolding at the federal level that beg to be addressed. As the summ

33. Grassroots Rising: A Conservative Call for Philanthropic Renewal
(Past Issues/The State of Our Union: Nonprofits and Government)
... and proposing solutions to their own problems cultivates in citizens the skills essential to democratic self-governance--formulation of persuasive public arguments, deliberation, compromise, and mode...

... Let us know what you think about these findings to date! This article is one of several focused on nonprofit governance in this issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Others include an examination of the ...

...al Racism, by john powell. I have also linked an article from our most recent issue about representation and governance and community engagement in our nonprofit institutions by Judy Freiwirth entitl...

36. Board Stories Involving Humans (Aug 07)
(eNewsletter/Letter from Ruth)
...ions of power; why would we want to do that? Anyway -- linked below are two articles from the summer issue on governance that propose alternative ways of peopling your boards and organizing your gover...

37. Exploring the Puzzle of Board Design: What’s Your Type?
(Past Issues/The Responsibility of Leadership)
Many boards are just a set of accumulated practices that don’t necessarily follow a governance design. This article is an exciting approach to what the primary design principles in nonprofit gov

38. Revolving Door at the Red Cross (Nov 07)
(eNewsletter/Letter from Ruth)
...es not know what they should be looking for -- and is failing repeatedly at one of the most critical tasks of governance, the selection of an executive. As I suggested in my previous e-Newsletter abou...

39. More Than Monitors: the Board’s Role in Sustainability
(Past Issues/Duty, Board, and Community)
...s is to introduce outcome reporting. Many nonprofits have to do this anyway for funders, but in terms of good governance, it is a complete waste of time unless the board has taken a number of steps fi...

40. Loyal Opposition
(Past Issues/Duty, Board, and Community)
... scrutiny and creativity that will ultimately strengthen its ability to achieve its mission. When it comes to governance, boards of directors tread a very fine line. Those who seek to lead the organiz...

41. Financial Independence: Six Approaches
(Past Issues/Back to Class)
...y, and regret the extent of their resource dependency. Reducing the effects of that dependency is a principal governance and management responsibility, which requires continuous and active attention. ...

42. Problem Boards or Board Problem?
(Past Issues/Blasts from the Past)
...and consultants, we have recently looked afresh at the challenge of improving nonprofit boards as part of the Governance Futures project. Conceived by BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Non...

43. Founders and Other Gods
(Past Issues/Blasts from the Past)
... shifts will occur and that different phases in an organization call for different kinds of leaders, flexible governance models and different types of skills and competencies among staff. If the peopl...

44. Founders and Other Gods
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Social Psychology: The Ties that Bind Us)
... shifts will occur and that different phases in an organization call for different kinds of leaders, flexible governance models and different types of skills and competencies among staff. If the peopl...

...re than the sum of their parts. Editors’ Note: This article emerges out of a lifetime of involvement in governance and reflective collaborative practice and contains simple jewels of insight abo...

46. Why Are We Replacing Furniture When Half the Neighborhood Is Missing?
(Past Issues/A Powerful Vision: Governance Suited to Purpose)
...e than the sum of their parts. Editors’ Note: This article emerges out of a lifetime of involvement in governance and reflective collaborative practice and contains simple jewels of insight abo...

47. Navigating the New Audit Standards
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Reality Shows: Season II)
...reporting of any identified weaknesses that auditors must provide to management and “those charged with governance.” Internal control weaknesses fall into two categories: significant defic...

48. The Girl Scouts: Uncharted Territory
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Reality Shows: Season II)
...desire for consistency and centralization. According to a 1999 Aspen Institute research paper entitled “Governance of National Federated Organizations, the federated continuum stretches from loo...

49. ONE DC: A New Chapter in Community Development in the Nation’s Capital
(Past Issues/Nonprofit Reality Shows: Season II)
...Gets Its House in Order Now that ONE DC is independent, it is attempting to establish systems and incorporate governance practices to prevent growth from becoming its undoing. The organization, for ex...

50. House Hearing: Good Hitters vs Weak Pitchers
(Special Articles/Web Articles)
...no new laws were needed to enhance oversight of the sector. Aviv described the impending fall release of self-governance standards by Independent Sector’s Panel on the Nonprofit Sector. Aviv int...

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