April 5, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
NEW BOOKS
The Nonprofit Dashboard: A Tool for Tracking Progress, by Lawrence M. Butler, offers a guide to creating a shorthand report to help board members quickly understand how their organization is performing. The book describes what a “dashboard report” is able to measure and how to choose which aspects of the nonprofit organization’s work to explore, the display that works best for different types of data, and how those reports can analyze progress and potential problems. A CD-ROM is provided as a tool to create customized dashboard reports, and includes a survey to assess how a charity’s staff can communicate information more effectively to its board — and what information the board needs to govern more effectively.
Publisher: BoardSource, 1828 L Street, N.W., Suite 900, Washington, D.C. 20036; (202) 452-6262 or (800) 883-6262; fax (202) 452-6299; mail@boardsource.org; http://www.boardsource.org; 53 pages; $39 for members, $52 for nonmembers; ISBN 1-58686-097-6.
