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Best Practices in Nonprofit Governance. Part One CBHC Annual Conference September 29, 2012. Your Presenter. Peter Brinckerhoff [email protected] www.missionbased.com. Our agenda-part one. Three Rules; Four Keys Best Practices in Governance Officer Roles and Responsibilities - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Best Practices in Nonprofit
GovernancePart One
CBHC Annual Conference September 29, 2012
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Our agenda-part one
•Three Rules; Four Keys
•Best Practices in Governance
•Officer Roles and Responsibilities
•Staff Roles in Governance
•Barriers to Effective Governance
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Our agenda-Part 2(4:15-5:45)
•Reducing Board Liability
•Better Decision Making
•Getting and Keeping the Best Board
•What to do Now...
•Resources
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Focus on Governance
•Governance is a key to good stewardship for all nonprofits
•More and more funders, who have focused on management or infrastructure are not focusing on governance
•As a result, there’s a great deal of research on best practices and trends
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The Three Rules of Nonprofits
1.Mission, Mission and more Mission
2.No Money No Mission
3.The ED works for the board. All the rest of the staff work for the ED
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The Four Keys to Good Governance1.Balance
2.Sticking to policy
3.Serving as a check and balance on staff
4.Providing outside credibility
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Best Practices in Nonprofit Governance• Term Limits
• Diversity
• Boards NOT primarily acting as fundraisers
• More strategy time at meetings
• Conflict of Interest policies
• Clear board job descriptions and expectations
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More Best Practices
•Effective Committees
•Regular assessment of meetings
•Transparency
•Avoiding nepotism
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Trends boards are wrestling with
• Board members harder to recruit and retain
• Shorter/fewer meetings
• Smaller boards
• Electronic attendance policies
• Others you want to discuss?
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Board Responsibilities•Understands the
mission and acts to implement it consistently
• Sets policy
• Acts as a check and balance on staff
•Works primarily with the ED/CEO
•Changes over time
• Supports the organization in public
• Fulfills government reporting requirements
• Ensures policies are up to date and followed
•Helps recruit new members
•Raises/donates funds
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Officer Roles and Responsibilities
•President
•Manages the Board--and manages board meetings
•Works closely with the ED
•Connecting with the community
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Vice President
•Usually the President in waiting....
•Fills in as needed
•Give this person a big job to do
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Treasurer
•Has to provide financial credibility to the board
•Needs to truly “get” the finances
•Chairs the Finance Committee
•Do you need a vice-treasurer?
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Secretary
•Responsible for minutes and records of the corporation
•May need to sign off on some documents in some states
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Committee Chairs
•Need to manage their committees--and their committee meetings
•Work closely with committee staff
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Staff Roles in Governance
•Staff have a big role in good governance
•If they can’t do their job well, the quality of governance will suffer.
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Staff Roles• Provide accurate, timely and focused
information--with recommendations
• Inform the board of key events
• Develop ongoing board orientation and education (with Board Development Committee)
• Participate in Board Recruitment
• Support Board Committees
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Barriers to Effective
Governance• Board committees are ineffective
• The board violates the Third Rule
• Board members don’t know about all the the organization’s programs
• The board regularly lacks a quorum
• Meetings are poorly managed
• Information doesn’t get to the board on time
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More barriers•The board slides into management
•The board does not keep board discussions private
•The board is not given anything meaningful to do
•Staff lacks the skills to support the board
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In Part Two.....
•Reducing Board Liability
•Better Decision Making
•Getting and Keeping the Best Board
•What to do Now...
•Resources
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Thanks for coming
•I hope to see you back here in 15 minutes!
•If not, have a great rest of your conference.