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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. Our general counsel conducted several governance workshops, 4 and the board became well-versed in their roles as well as our bylaws, revising them as needed. Here’s a unique model of nonprofit board governance based in consensus. ︎

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It has become clear that only with deep, long-term investment from government and foundations can these communities hope to make meaningful progress in improving their residents’ health and well-being. policy and advocacy, research and legal assistance, communications and narrative change, leadership and organizational development).

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Paving a Better Way: What’s Driving Progressive Organizations Apart and How to Win by Coming Together

NonProfit Quarterly

However, those progressive values sometimes rub against the tendency of leaders to enact traditional management and governance practices, particularly as the size, scale, and complexity of organizations grow. We suggest that it be used to ground and orient organizational development change processes.