Community Foundation Board Chair Orientation
This is a recording of a recent orientation held for newer board chairs.
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This is a recording of a recent orientation held for newer board chairs.
Family foundations have some of the strongest values for philanthropic giving, and many of those values endure through generations of family involvement. But how do you best prepare new generations to serve on a foundation board?
This webinar highlights foundation board and executive challenges and discusses board development levers most related to stronger board and foundation performance.
This webinar will help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
Learn how to implement a Talent Retention Program in your community to incentivize college-educated youth to return home after obtaining a college degree.
In this webinar you'll learn how to start a talent retention program in your community.
This webinar addresses the language gap between foundation staff and their accounting professionals while also providing a simplified look at accounting.
This webinar will assist you in getting the most out of your board meetings.
Learn about the Sustainability Costing Tool developed to help community foundations analyze the profitability of products and services they provide to drive sustainability.
In this webinar you'll learn how you can implement effective management practices to plan for successful succession, transition, and onboarding of new staff at all levels of your organization.
Learn what your peers are doing to recruit and maintain high-functioning boards.
These sample disclosure forms ask individuals to list their affiliations with other entities that might potentially affect their independent decision making in order to identify potential conflicts of interest based on an expansive definition of affiliated persons.
This webinar will help you think through your approach to strategic planning.
The heightened focus on nonprofit accountability in recent years has spurred calls for foundations and public charities to have adequate policies and procedures in place to ensure sound governance. One such policy that has become a recommended best practice for the sector is a whistleblower protection policy, yet most nonprofits still don’t have one. Here are some basic issues to consider when developing a whistleblower protection policy for your grantmaking organization.
Sample board and committee descriptions, including roles and responsibilities of committee members.
A sample form used by a foundation's board of directors to evaluation the chief executive officer.
Sample bylaws for Community Foundations.
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