Nonprofit executives and board members will welcome this thorough, authoritative and helpful guide to the role, core functions and effective contributions of a voluntary board and its directors.

NONPROFIT GOVERNANCE offers up-to-date, comprehensive information and practical suggestions that will be of crucial aid to any nonprofit organization, large or small. Among the topics addressed are:
• Historical roots of the voluntary sector in America
• A complete discussion of the key functions of nonprofit Boards
• Suggestions for Board organization
• Best practices for Board meetings
• Best practices for Board decisions
• Legal issues that affect nonprofit Boards,
• New guidelines for good governance from the for-profit sector
• Practical tools for self assessment

One of the useful appendices offers a simplified Robert’s Rules from the League of Women Voters.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS John Tropman is Professor in, and Acting Dean of, the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan Thomas J. Harvey is Director of the Master of Nonprofit Administration Program in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame.

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