Leadership and The Workplace

Nonprofit Spark

Renee McGivern

Nonprofit Spark – Common sense non-profit board policies – 01/02/12

A primary responsibility of a non-profit board is to create policies that support the use of best practices in the organization.  What are basic policies every non-profit board should approve?  How are these different from policies that staff create?  My guest this week is Paula J. MacLean, author of the Canadian best-seller, Great Boards Plain and Simple.  We hone in on conflict of interest, committee and financial oversight policies, and even a “what kind of board are we?”  policy.  We also discuss an approach to getting all the policies written so other board work is not impeded. 

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