Doing Good Even Better: How to Be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization

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Overview

The trusted handbook for nonprofit board service is back-newly expanded and updated! Doing Good Even Better is approachable wisdom, fresh from the recently retired chair of Habitat for Humanity International. Edgar Stoesz has made Doing Good Even Better into a guidebook. In short, pointedly-written chapters, he covers: Helping Directors Understand Their Governance Role, A Plan to Fulfill the Organization's Purpose, Reporting Back to the Members, Planning Effective Meetings, Great Boards Have a Good Fight (Occasionally), Leaving Right.

Stoesz deftly interweaves background philosophy, vision, and razor-sharp specific Ideas. The book includes "Discussion Questions," "Board Self-Evaluation" ...

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Overview

The trusted handbook for nonprofit board service is back-newly expanded and updated! Doing Good Even Better is approachable wisdom, fresh from the recently retired chair of Habitat for Humanity International. Edgar Stoesz has made Doing Good Even Better into a guidebook. In short, pointedly-written chapters, he covers: Helping Directors Understand Their Governance Role, A Plan to Fulfill the Organization's Purpose, Reporting Back to the Members, Planning Effective Meetings, Great Boards Have a Good Fight (Occasionally), Leaving Right.

Stoesz deftly interweaves background philosophy, vision, and razor-sharp specific Ideas. The book includes "Discussion Questions," "Board Self-Evaluation" forms, and an outline for the "Executive Director Annual Review." Doing Good Even Better is practical, ready-to-go material for nonprofit board members who are stiffly new or wearily veteran.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781561486014
  • Publisher: Good Books
  • Publication date: 10/28/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 145
  • Sales rank: 413,916
  • Product dimensions: 5.55 (w) x 8.41 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents


Preface     7
Doing Good Even Better Begins with People     11
Organizational Greatness Begins with People     13
Growing Great Directors     17
Helping Directors Become Great Leaders     21
Making Room for Greatness     24
Helping Directors Understand Their Governance Role     29
Distinguishing Governance from Management     31
Defining the Purpose-Duty #1     35
Planning to Fulfill the Purpose-Duty #2     39
Delegating Responsibility for Plan Implementation-Duty #3     42
Resourcing the Plan-Duty #4     46
Monitoring and Evaluating-Duty #5     50
Reporting Back to the Members-Duty #6     54
Helping Boards Have Better Meetings     57
Meetings-Why Have Them?     59
A Strategic Agenda     63
Planning Effective Meetings     67
Whose Rules of Order?     71
Bad Habits Great Boards Overcome     74
The Role of the Chair     78
The Role of Recording     82
Great Boards Have A Good Fight (Occasionally)     86
Great Boards Evaluate Performance     91
Great Boards Evaluate Themselves     93
Great BoardsEvaluate Program     99
Great Boards Evaluate Their CEO     103
More Tools to Increase Board Effectiveness     109
Governing Through Policies     111
The Board's Role in Fund-Raising     117
The Budget-A Necessary Management Tool     121
Cautions about Committees     125
Committees-Getting More with Less     129
Managing Conflict Constructively     133
Working Your Way Through a Crisis     137
Smelling Salts for Discouraged Organizations     141
Under the Shadow of Litigation     145
Great Board Celebrate     149
Leaving Right     155
Afterword     157
Exhibits     159
Board Self-Evaluation: Board Responsibilities-The Full Scope     159
Board Self-Evaluation: Board Duties-How Well Are We Accomplishing Them?     163
Board Self-Evaluation: Board Meetings-Our Work Together     166
Director Self-Evaluation     169
Suggestions for Committees     171
Writing Effective Proposals for Board Action     173
CEO Annual Review Outline     176
CEO Search Checklist     180
Suggestions for Interviewing a Candidate for the CEO Position      183
Governance Guidelines: A Model for a Start-Up Organization     185
Thoughts for Reflection     188
About the Author     190
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