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Having a productive and actively engaged board of directors is a gift to any organization. How can an organization measure the engagement of its board...

How should a board member respond to an employee or service recipient's concern or complaint? Carefully! As a board member, your desire to help could...

Model board practices include an organization's board periodically holding up a mirror to assess its own performance. Jane Mack, CEO for FSA | Friends...

Evaluating nonprofit board meetings is an important quality improvement measure. Jane Mack, CEO for FSA | Friends Services Alliance, explores the...

Free for LeadingAge members. Jane Mack shares tips for developing a board self-assessment tool, including the structure and process to follow...

There is a fine line between providing a board with just the right amount of information needed to make informed decisions.

Too often we see board...

Evaluating board meetings to assess things such as the quality of materials, preparation of members, quality of discussions, and appropriate focus of...

A model practice for Board composition is to consider the skills and attributes needed on your Board.

Using a grid such as this to list those...

Are your Board and CEO in a productive relationship with both parties fully engaged in their roles? Power dynamics shift and roles can become blurred...

Boards are naturally pulled toward operational information and work — it’s where many of them have experience and it is where they are comfortable...