Recruiting and Managing a Board: a Sampling of Resources

IN THE TRENCHES

Articles from The Chronicle:

Building a Better Board, February 12, 1998

When Board Members Are Not Rich, October 2, 1997

New Blood in the Board Room, February 6, 1997

Charity Leaders Say Fund Raising Is a Nonprofit Board Members’ Chief Weakness, December 13, 1994

How to Help Trustees Overcome Their Fear of Fund Raising, April 20, 1993

Building Better Charity Boards, January 12, 1993

Books:

Nonprofit Boards That Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Governance, by Maureen K. Robinson (John Wiley & Sons, $29.95). John Wiley & Sons, 1 Wiley Drive, Somerset, N.J. 08875, (800) 225-5945, http://www.wiley.com

The Board Building Cycle: Nine Steps to Finding, Recruiting, and Engaging Nonprofit Board Members, by Sandra R. Hughes, Berit M. Lakey, and Marla J. Bobowick (National Center for Nonprofit Boards, $27 for the center’s members, $36 for nonmembers), National Center for Nonprofit Boards, publication department, P.O. Box 92294, Washington, D.C. 20090-2294, (202) 452-6262 or (800) 883-6262, ncnb@ncnb.org, http://www.ncnb.org

The Board Development Kit, Third Edition, by Richard Linzer (Facilitation + Consultation, $25 plus $2.50 postage and handling). Richard and Anna Linzer, Facilitation + Consultation, P.O. Box 374, Indianola, Wash. 98342, (360) 297-8331, rslinzer@earthlink.net, http://www.linzerconsulting.com

Videos:

“Building Boards That Work: Video Workshop” (National Center for Nonprofit Boards, $26.75 for the center’s members, $37 for non-members). National Center for Nonprofit Boards, publication department, P.O. Box 92294, Washington, D.C. 20090-2294, (202) 452-6262 or (800) 883-6262, ncnb@ncnb.org, http://www.ncnb.org

World Wide Web:

National Center for Nonprofit Boards’ Web site has a section that allows people to pose questions about trustees, and contains an archive of answers to questions that had been raised in the past. Go to http://www.ncnb.org/askncnb/index.htm