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The Beginner's Guide to Nonprofit Boards
The beginner's guide to nonprofit boards: what the board does, your role, and how to take part from your first meeting.
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Practical help for your next board meeting.
Plain-language guides for new and current board members. One guide is ready to read now as an article, and the rest are coming soon.
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The Ultimate Guide to Building a Dream Board
For chief executives and chairs: ideas for building a board that works well.
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What does a nonprofit board do?
Governance, oversight and mission: what the board decides and what staff runs.
Read the articleQuestions to ask before you join a board
The documents, finances, time and insurance questions to raise before you say yes.
A director's duties, in plain words
Care, loyalty and obedience, and what they look like in a real meeting.
Reading your organization's Form 990
Where to look, and what questions the numbers should prompt.
Conflicts of interest
Disclose, follow the board's process, and step aside when the policy says so.
Board meetings that decide
Quorum, motions, votes and minutes you would be comfortable standing behind.