This resource provides tools and tips to assist the board to address challenging governance issues with awareness. These tools will assist your Board in crafting a conscious leadership structure and approach that will effectively improve performance.
Board Induction is essential to ensuring that new Board members become productive contributors to the nonprofit Board as quickly as possible. A well designed Board induction process will help to ensure that new Board members are aware of their roles and responsibilities and to understand the nonprofit organization’s objectives and operations.
One of the key roles of any Board is to continually ensure that it has the right set of skills, talents and attributes represented in its Board members. A conscious Board will develop a succession plan that provides guidance on identifying and sourcing potential Board members who can fulfill key requirements.
Board Charters are documents that set out the job description and overall role of the board — from the composition, purpose, role, and responsibilities to job descriptions for committees — reminding Board members that they are part of a group with authority over, and liability for, the organization.
The most common nonprofit Board committees are the Finance and Audit committee (sometimes called the Finance committee), the Board and CEO Appraisal committee (sometimes called the Governance committee, or the Succession Planning committee, or the Remuneration committee), and the Compliance committee (sometimes called the internal audit committee, or the audit and risk committee).