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Getting nonprofit boards on board: Recruiting, governance, and fundraising

Candid

It also highlights how good practices in governance and fiduciary duties can foster more collaboration, accountability, and effective decision making. Strategies for strengthening nonprofit board governance A nonprofit governing board has a legal obligation to oversee management of the organization.

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An Experimental Approach to Early-Stage Nonprofit Governance

Stanford Social Innovation Review

The ultimate success of these young nonprofits—their ability to fulfill their missions—will depend on many things, but good governance is among the most important. This includes the value of experimentation. Here’s a closer look at each of these five lessons.

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Maybe nonprofit governance aint what it needs to be?

Philanthropy 2173

Though its size is not based on endowed assets but rather speculative stock value, the organization, which is still as of this writing a nonprofit , is valued at $86 Billion. Second, the OpenAI events show that the nonprofit governance model is not "strong" enough to outweigh the interests of investors.

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Embracing partnership: A promising paradigm for nonprofit governance 

Candid

Traditionally, nonprofit governance has been perceived through a hierarchical lens, with board members primarily overseeing and guiding the organization’s direction while staff execute the operational tasks. The nonprofit governance orthodoxy Nonprofit governance operates within a framework of three legal duties.

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How the Wealthy Took Control of Nonprofits

NonProfit Quarterly

In Reimagining Nonprofit Boards , a three-part series based on the NPQ webinar, A New Framework for Boards, Ananda Valenzuela challenges traditional governance models and offers a new vision for boards that empower rather than constrain. To get there, however, requires an understanding of how boards came to be.

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Gather, Share, Build

Stanford Social Innovation Review

When Nexleaf started in 2009, its co-founders aspired to bring the value of consistent sensor data to low-resource health systems. Tech Matters recently launched the Better Deal for Data , a lightweight data governance initiative, to develop a simple set of commitments for social sector organizations to adopt.

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Sneak Preview: Classes Announced for 2023

NonProfit Leadership Center

Board Governance Rock Star Certificate (VIRTUAL) — February 8 & 15: During two evening sessions that you can attend from anywhere, you’ll learn the fundamental nonprofit governance concepts every nonprofit leader should understand and practice. Competing governance models and governance trends.