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Assessment for a Board’s Readiness for the Future
Use this self-assessment to evaluate your board’s readiness to recruit and develop the next generation of board members and leadership.
Assessing the 'Fit': Using Competencies to Select New Board Members
Trustee Articles
Bringing new members onto the board has its challenges. In small or rural communities, the pool of potential trustees is often limited, with desirable candidates already serving on multiple boards. Even in bigger urban areas, it sometimes seems the same people rotate on and off the boards of larger community organizations — the Rotary Club, the chamber of commerce, the hospital.
Applying Competency-based Criteria to Committee Makeup and Education
Trustee Articles
More and more boards are adopting the practice of using competency-based criteria to select governing board members. They identify the subject areas and behavioral qualities needed from trustees and apply them to recruitment, orientation, leadership development, succession planning and periodic evaluation.
Active Board Succession
Trustee Articles
A decade ago, BoardSource, an organization supporting nonprofit boards, developed a well known list of aspirational principles of governance. For us they still ring true: “mission driven,” “ethos of transparency,” “compliance with integrity.”
2018 Sample Board Composition Policy
Board Policies
Board and Committee Composition and Succession Planning...
Sample Governance Authority Matrix
Unlock better governance practices with our delegation of authority matrix template, ensuring clarity and accountability across your organization.
Getting Nurses on Board(s)
Why health care organizations should consider adding nurses to their boards.
Policy on Board Composition and Recruitment
Board Policies
Governance responsibilities today are so significant that board members must bring more than commitment to the mission and interest in serving. As William Bowen writes, every trustee should bring a “specific competence or experience needed on the board.” This sample provides a board policy statement on competency-based recruitment, election and re-election of board members. Use it to customize a
process for your board.