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Top 10 Books about Board Leadership
Click on titles for descriptions and pricing.The Art of Trusteeship: The Nonprofit Board Members Guide to Effective Governance by Susan Houchin and Candace Widmer Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift by Jerold Panas The Best of the Board Cafe: Hands-On Solutions for Nonprofit Boards by Jan Masaoka Board Recruitment & Orientation: A Step-by-Step Common Sense Guide by Hildy Gottlieb Boards that Make a Difference by John Carver Governance Through Social Learning by Gilles Paquet The Law of Charitable and Non-Profit Organizations by Donald J. Bourgeois The Leader's Digest by Jim Clemmer Nonprofit Boards that Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Governance by Maureen K. Robinson The Ultimate Board Member's Book: A 1-Hour Guide to Understanding and Fulfilling Your Role and Responsibilities by Kay Sprinkel Grace
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Nonprofit Board Answer Book: Practical Guidelines for Board Members & Chief Executives
Robert C. Andringa and Ted W. Engstrom /Hardcover/ Published 2001 Presented as a series of best practices on a wide range of nonprofit management issues, the authors consulted hundreds of nonprofits and board members in compiling this volume. It includes 37 short chapters, each addressing a different but common issue.
Buy through Amazon.ca: $39.40
Buy through Amazon.com: US$39.95
- The Law of Charitable and Non-Profit Organizations
- Donald J. Bourgeois
Please note: This book is not available from Amazon.ca or Amazon.com, but is considered an important text.
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A New Vision of Board Leadership: Governing the Community College- John Carver, et al / Hardcover / Published 1994
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Basic Principles of Policy Governance (Carverguide Series on Effective Board Governance, 1) Vol 1- John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver / Paperback / Published 1996
Board Leadership No. 61- John Carver / Paperback / Published 2002
Board Leadership No. 62- John Carver / Paperback / Published 2002
Board Leadership No. 66- John Carver / Paperback / Published 2003
Board Members as Fundraising, Advisors, and Lobbyists (Carverguide, vol. 11) Vol 11- John Carver / Paperback / Published 1997
Boards That Make a Difference- John Carver / hardcover / Published 1997
John Carver's groundbreaking Policy Governance model has influenced the way public and nonprofit boards operate around the world. Now, as widespread experience with the model continues to grow, Carver enriches his definitive exposition with updated policy samples, a new chapter on the process of policy development, and additional resources for various types of boards. He debunks the entrenched beliefs about board roles and functions that hamper dedicated board members. With creative insight and commonsense practicality, Carver presents a bold new approach to board job design, board-staff relationships, the chief executive role, performance monitoring, and virtually every aspect of the board-management relationship. In their stead, he offers a board model designed to produce policies that make a difference, missions that are clearly articulated, standards that are ethical and prudent, meetings, officers, and committees that work; and leadership that supports the fulfillment of long-term goals.
Chairpersons Role As Servant Leader to the Board- John Carver / Paperback / Published 1996
Describes the fundamental responsibilities of the chairperson of the board: to ensure the functioning of the board and the integrity of the board process. Offers invaluable tips for helping the chair lead more effectively, such as leading the board to define its own job, design its discipline, and evaluate its performance.
John Carver on Board Leadership- John Carver / Hardcover / Published 2001
Planning Better Board Meetings (Carver, John. Carverguide Series on Effective Board Governance, 5.) Vol 5- John Carver / Paperback / Published 1996
Reinventing Your Board: A Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance (The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Sector Series)- John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver / Hardcover / Published 1997
Strategies for Board Leadership (Carverguide Series on Effective Board Governance, No 10)- John Carver / Paperback / Published 1997
Three Steps to Fiduciary Responsibility (Carverguide Series on Effective Board Governance, 3) Vol 3- John Carver / Paperback / Published 1996
Your Roles and Responsibilities As a Board Member (Carverguide Series on Effective Board Governance, 2) Vol 2- John Carver, Miriam Mayhew Carver / Paperback / Published 1996
Insuring Inequality: Administrative Leadership in Social Security, 1935-1954- Jerry Cates / Hardcover / Published 1983
Leadership in the British Civil Service: A Study of Sir Percival Waterfield and the Creation of the Civil Service Selection Board- Richard Chapman / Hardcover / Published 1984
The Leader's Digest- Jim Clemmer / Paperback / Published 2003
Leadership is a popular topic today because it's so central to personal, team, and organization success. This has lead to a confusing multitude of leadership grids, charts, formulas, jargon, fads, charismatic stories, and buzzwords. Drawing on decades of research, extensive experience coaching and developing thousands of managers, and previous bestselling books, Jim Clemmer distills today's leadership information overload to its core essentials. The result is a series of insights and bite-sized briefings on the timeless principles of leading people.
The New Effective Voluntary Board of Directors: What It Is and How it Works- William R., Jr Conrad / Hardcover / Published 2003
Nonprofit Boards: Roles, Responsibilities & Performances- Diane J. Duca /Hardcover/Published 1996
This practical guide is dedicated to helping nonprofit board members, chairpersons, and executive directors develop and manage effective boards, empowered to respond to the special needs of their organizations. What role should a nonprofit board play in fulfilling your organization's mission? How should the board carry out its responsibility to see that funds and other resources are used in the most efficient possible manner? How can the board perform its duties without alienating staff members? What pitfalls can divert a nonprofit board from addressing critical board functions? Find answers to all of these questions and more.
Extraordinary Board Leadership: The Seven Keys to High-Impact Governance- Doug Eadie/Paperback/ Published 2003
Despite the best intentions, many nonprofits never take full advantage of board members' wisdom, talents, influence and contacts. Nonprofit leadership expert Doug Eadie has a method for changing that! In his new book, Extraordinary Board Leadership, Eadie reveals the power of "high-impact governance." With Eadies' guidance, chief executives, board members, and the entire leadership team can join in forging a partnership that transforms ordinary boards into extraordinary leaders. Drawing on experience with more than 400 nonprofits, Eadie helps nonprofits reach beyond success with "nuts and bolts" issues -- like writing bylaws or running good meetings--to develop dynamic leadership that makes the board a true asset in leading change and achieving unprecedented results.
The Corporate Board: Confronting the Paradoxes- Ada Demb, F. Friedrich Neubauer / Hardcover / Published 1992
Board Recruitment & Orientation: A Step-by-Step Common Sense Guide- Hildy Gottlieb / Paperback / Published 2001
This step-by-step manual will help you create a strong recruitment and orientation program, putting your board on the road to increased effectiveness. Whether your board needs minor tweaks or a major overhaul, you will find yourself coming back to this common sense guide again and again.
Please note: this title is only available through Amazon.com but comes highly recommended and is considered ‘essential reading’ among some people.
The Ultimate Board Member's Book: A 1-Hour Guide to Understanding and Fulfilling Your Role and Responsibilities- Kay Sprinkel Grace / Hardcover / Published 2003
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Executive Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: New Strategies for Shaping Executive-Board Dynamics (The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Sector Series)- Robert D. Herman, Richard D. Heimovics / Hardcover / Published 1991
Describes the strategies that effective executives use to position their organizations in the larger environment and offers detailed guidance on how executives can work more productively with their boards. "Every aspiring and practicing nonprofit executive should read and reread this book."--Nancy Axelrod, executive director, National Center for Nonprofit Boards
Leader to Leader: Enduring Insights on Leadership from the Drucker Foundation's Award Winning Journal- Frances Hesselbein/Hardcover/Published 1999
A great collection of articles about mission, leadership, values, innovation, building collaborations, and creating community from the magazine of the same name.
Building Effective Boards for Religious Organizations- Thomas J. Holland and David C. Hester /Hardcover/Published 1999
Drawing on years of research, consulting, and experience with religious nonprofits, the authors show how board members can clearly define their roles and mission, transform hierarchical structures into models of collaborative leadership, and organizer for greater impact.
Art Of Trusteeship- Susan Houchin and Candace Widmer /Hardcover/Published 2000
This book offers a comprehensive and concise overview of nonprofit board members' roles and responsibilities. It's based on the successful Girls Inc., in-house board manual and details all key trustee responsibilities, from defining missions and strategic planning to fundraising and financial management. Case studies illustrate how creative boards have tackled challenges and strengthened their organizations.
The Board Member's Guide to Fund Raising: What Every Trustee Needs to Know about Raising Money- Fisher Howe /Hardcover/Published 1991
A comprehensive resource for fund raising. Howe shows how and why board members must lead fundraising efforts. Topics include capital campaigns, publicity, direct mail, and fundraising ethics.
The Board Member's Guide to Strategic Planning: A Practical Approach to Strengthening Nonprofit Organizations (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Sector Series)- Fisher Howe, Alan Shrader (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1998
A quick compact guide for busy nonprofit board members by a veteran board member and sought-after consultant to nonprofits. Presenting illustrative examples and straightforward action steps, the book guides board members through each step of strategic planning, including planning meetings, using consultants and facilitators, and determining visions and values.
The Nonprofit Leadership Team: Building the Board-Executive Director Partnership- Fisher Howe / Hardcover / Published 2003
The Nonprofit Leadership Team is written for nonprofit executive directors and CEOs, senior staff, board members and nonprofit consultants. It focuses on the key leadership team— the board and its chair and the executive director— and shows how the constituents can work in partnership to lead an effective, healthy organization.
In this important book, Fisher Howe, an expert on the topic of nonprofit leadership, covers every aspect of leading an organization as a team. He clearly shows what the board expects of the executive and what the executive expects of the board and the individual members, examines the working relationship among them, and demonstrates how the leadership team deals with specific responsibilities and challenges.
Welcome to the Board: Your Guide to Effective Participation (The Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Sector Series)- Fisher Howe / Hardcover / Published 1995
In easy-to-understand language, Howe answers the most common questions and concerns of prospective board members, and details their rights, obligations, and liabilities.Drawing on a lifetime of experience on nonprofit boards, Howe details the seven key responsibilities of a nonprofit board member--including how to go about the process of approving the mission, long-range planning, fundraising, and selecting and evaluating a chief executive. Additionally, Howe explores the leadership role each board member must assume if their organization is to excel.
Fund Raising Realities Every Board Member Must Face: A 1-Hour Crash Course on Raising Major Gifts for Nonprofit Organizations- David Lansdowne /Paperback/Published 1996
As the title promises, this compact but information-packed book delivers an overview of the importance of major gift fundraising by board members and valuable tips on how to go about doing it. If you have board members who begin to tremble at the thought of making an ask, this book will put them at ease.
The Best of the Board Cafe: Hands-on Solutions for Nonprofit Boards- Jan Masaoka / Paperback / Published 2003
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Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift- Jerold Panas / Paperback / Published 2002
It ranks right up there with public speaking. Nearly all of us fear it. And yet it’s critical to our success. Asking for money. It makes even the stout-hearted quiver.But now comes a book, Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Staff and Volunteers Must Know to Secure the Gift. And short of a medical elixir, it’s the next best thing for emboldening you, your board members and volunteers to ask with skill, finesse … and powerful results.
Jerold Panas, who as a staff person, board member and volunteer has secured gifts ranging from $50 to $50 million, understands the art of asking perhaps better than anyone in America.
He has harnessed all of his knowledge and experience and produced what many are already calling a landmark book.
What Asking convincingly shows — and one reason staff will applaud the book and board members will devour it — is that it doesn’t take stellar communication skills to be an effective asker. Nearly everyone, regardless of their persuasive ability, can become an effective fundraiser if they follow Jerold Panas’ step-by-step guidelines.
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Governance Through Social Learning- Gilles Paquet / Paperback / Published 1999
The High-Performance Board: Principles of Nonprofit Organization Governance- Dennis D. Pointer/Hardcover/Published 2002
While boards acknowledge they bear ultimate responsibility and accountability for their organizations' affairs, governance quality is often far from optimal. The High- Performance Board offers pragmatic and candid advice about what your board must do to maximize performance and contributions. The authors provide sixty-four principles designed to help your board achieve peak performance. They describe every principle in detail and present best practices and practical applications for each one. Each section of the book concludes with a board check-up-a set of questions that can be used to assess your board in light of the principles. A quick read for busy board members, this book is the ultimate board "drivers' manual."
Nonprofit Boards that Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Governance- Maureen K. Robinson / Hardcover / Published 2001
As more than 10 million people in the United States alone say yes to board service, they also expect to see their time and talents used effectively. This invaluable book presents a straightforward approach to understanding the role of the board, tailoring its work to meet the needs of specific organizations, and creating a culture of board productivity that makes participation rewarding for board members as well as the organizations they serve. Nonprofit Boards That Work:
* Distinguishes between theory and practice and encourages boards to explore how they genuinely add value to the work of the organization
* Goes beyond the hows and whys of nonprofit governance to provide frank advice and real-world examples of what works, what doesn’t, what requires a miracle, and what can be achieved through diligent and deliberate effort
* Offers practical yet flexible strategies that can be tried by any nonprofit board, whatever its current effectiveness. . . and much more to guide nonprofit organizations and their boards toward accomplishing the goals they seek.
Creating Caring & Capable Boards: Reclaiming the Passion for Active Trusteeship- Katherine Scott / Hardcover / Published 2000
Here's a thorough, step-by-step process for bolstering a governing board's understanding of the organization, commitment to goals and mission, and the ability to lead. The book includes clear-cut processes and exercises that can guide individual trustees in understanding their organizations and their role.
Common Sense for Board Members- Edgar Stoesz /Paperback/Published 2002
You've just joined a board of directors. You're enthused about the organization's contribution and mission. But you're suddenly uncertain about what's expected of you beside reading reports and attending meetings.Common Sense for Board Members sets forth bite-sized advice. It begins by clarifying the difference between board work and staff work. It speaks to moving board members from doing organizational housekeeping to doing organizational planning.
Edgar Stoesz, who served for years as chairman of Habitat for Humanity International and is the co-author of the topselling book Doing Good Better, covers many practical matters in brief but thoughtful fashion. Among the more than 40 topics that he deals with are: Whose Rules of Order?, When Did You Last Vote Nay?, Delegating: Who Is Responsible?, Boardroom Bullies, and Dealing With a Crisis.
Leading Small Groups: Basic Skills for Church & Community Organizations- Nathan W. Turner/Paperback/Published 1996
Turner is an experienced leader of small groups and spells out many of the common challenges that small organizations face in their development. This book looks at leaderships styles, stages of group development and the creative use of conflict. Training exercises and worksheets help you put the theory into action.
Creating Caring & Capable Boards: Reclaiming the Passion for Active Trusteeship- Katherine Tyler Scott/Hardcover/Published 2000
How can you build a board that is committed to your organization and its success? According to Katherine Tyler Scott, education is the key. This book offers her step-by-step process for strengthening a boards understanding of the organization, commitment to its goals and mission, and its ability to provide leadership.
Secrets of Successful Boards: The Best from the Non-Profit Pros- Carol E. Weisman and Sandy Sineff /Paperback/ Published 1998
A fascinating collection of essays about board management, including chapters on building boards with passion, board fundraising, trustee roles, effective meeting strategies, liability issues, strategic planning, volunteer issues, board-staff relationships, and internet strategies.
Nonprofit Boards and Leadership: Cases on Governance, Change, and Board-Staff Dynamics (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit Sector Series)- Miriam M. Wood (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
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