• How to Start and Grow a Think Tank
  • Prologue
  • Planning
  • Legal Documents
  • Staff
  • Board
    • Legal Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards
    • Building and Maintaining an Effective Board
    • Major Duties of the Board of Directors
    • What Makes A Successful Board Member?
    • Contribution Policy
    • Procedure for Nominating Committee in Considering New Trustees
    • How do we Keep Board Members Informed?
    • Board Attendance Policy
    • Potential Standing Committees
    • Potential Ad Hoc Committees
    • Ideas to Enhance Your Board
    • Staff and Board Responsibilities
    • Robert's Rules of Order Motions Chart
    • Guidelines for Recruiting New Board Members
    • Checklist to Evaluate the Strength of a Board
    • The Chair's Board Meeting Checklist
    • Sample Board of Directors Meeting Agenda
    • Source List for the Board of Directors
  • Sample Board Job Descriptions
  • Infrastructure
  • Fundraising
  • Events
  • Networking and Outreach
  • PR and Marketing
  • General Management
  • Resources
• Grassroots Leadership Guide to K-12 Education Reform
• Taking Donors Seriously
• Fundraising Fundamentals

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Source List for the Board of Directors

Board Development and Governance

The Fundraising Habits of Supremely Successful Boards
by Jerold Panas (Emerson & Church, 2006), 108 pages

Inside the Nonprofit Boardroom: What you Need to Know for Satisfaction and Success
by Charles William Golding with Craig W. Stewart (Documentary Book Publishers, 1999), 80 pages

Not On This Board You Don't: Making Your Trustees More Effective
by Arthur C. Frantzreb (Bonus Books, 1997), 250 pages

Boardroom Verities: A Celebration of Trusteeship With Some Guides and Techniques to Govern
by Jerold Panas (Precept Press, 1991), 238 pages

 

Websites

National Center for Nonprofit Boards (http://www.ncnb.org/)

BoardSource (http://www.boardsource.org/)

Nathan Garber and Associates (http://www.garberconsulting.com/)

Alliance for Nonprofit Management (http://www.allianceonline.org/)

Compass Point Nonprofit Services - "Board Café" (www.compasspoint.org/publications/board_cafe)

Authenticity Consulting (http://www.np-org-dev.com/)

Nonprofit Resource Center of the United Way  (http://www.uwcact.org/)

Jim Slaughter, Parliamentarian Consultant (http://www.jimslaughter.com/)