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ResetBoard Effectiveness
General
- Should CEOs Be on the Board? - learn about the advantages and limitations of CEOs on boards, whether CEOs on the board should have full voting rights and how to approach this decision
- Bringing Personal Accountabilty on Board - how increased acccountability enhances board member performance
- Why Boards Don’t Govern - lists prevalent obstacles and disincentives to good governance and suggests ways to strengthen the board’s performance
- Building an Effective Board of Directors - comprehensive overview addressing board roles and responsibilities, barriers to board effectiveness, board recruitment and orientation, committee structure and board evaluation
- Foundation Governance: The CEO Viewpoint - report on the findings of a survey of CEO’s of the largest 250 US foundations on the governance practice of their foundation boards
- Foundation Effectiveness: The Trustee Viewpoint - report on a meeting of senior foundation leaders about key elements of foundation effectiveness, including strategy choices, performance assessment, funder-grantee relationships, and governance
- Beyond Compliance: The Trustee Viewpoint on Effective Foundation Governance Survey - study of trustee perceptions of what the key components of foundation effectiveness are
- Board Member Sabbaticals: A Good Idea?
Assessment
- Board Self-Study Guide Hyams Foundation (medium foundation) - questionnaire used by board to review its grantmaking, programs, governance, board and committee organization and management and operations
- Individual Board Self Assessment Hyams Foundation (medium foundation) - covers fiduciary duties, foundation knowledge, board and committee meetings, communication with the public and self-performance assessment
- Board Self-Assessment Questionnaire Council on Foundations
Meetings
- Guide to Conducting Effective Meetings - topics include participant selection, developing the agenda, opening the meeting, establishing ground rules, managing the meeting, closing the meeting and meeting evaluation
- Sample Board Meeting Agenda Council on Foundations
- Sample Board Meeting Evaluation United States Soccer Foundation (small foundation)
- Sample Board Meeting Evaluation Council on Foundations
