The Nonprofit Leadership Lab’s Guide to a Five-Star Board
Who, What, How and Why of Great Nonprofit Board Governance
A handbook for board members, board chairs, and executive directors, by Joan Garry and Glennda Testone.
Can you just imagine how quickly you could transform your board if every member read this book? That’s what we are imagining!
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What Leaders Are Saying
“This concise, highly practical book draws on the authors’ deep real-world experience working with and serving on nonprofit boards. Anyone who serves on a board will benefit from reading it.”
“Testone and Garry offer all of us an inspirational and practical roadmap that all nonprofits can follow–and must. Because the world is counting on all of us.”
Everything You Need for a Five-Star Board
What is a board? Who should be on it? How should it function effectively? Why even be on a board?
The majority of people who sign up for board service are never given the necessary knowledge and tools. Two of the most prominent advocates and champions of the nonprofit sector will tell you what the job is and how you can be a successful and valued member of the nonprofit you love.
Partnership between the board and the staff is the foundation.
Board members with diverse skills and POVs provide the core of an effective board.
With these in place, it’s possible to fundraise with ease and excitement; shift the mindset of your organization from one of scarcity to one of possibility; and drain the dread from board meetings and retreats.
Filled with easy-to-implement ideas that have been road-tested by tens of thousands of board members, this book will increase your nonprofit’s impact as it provides a sense of joy and purpose to those who serve.
A Board Member’s Complete Toolkit
- Hire the staff leader your organization deserves
- Create board committees that add real value
- Cast strong board leaders
- Establish your first board
- Recruit to cover all board responsibilities
- Set board strategy
- Be an ace financial steward
- Measure impact
- Gather with purpose, inspiration, and fun
- Leave your mark
Joan Garry and Glennda Testone
Through their online learning community, the Nonprofit Leadership Lab, Joan Garry and Glennda Testone have supported over 25,000 board members and executive directors.
Joan has been a strategic advisor to CEOs at, among others, UNICEF, amfAR, NAMI and is recognized as the #1 voice on nonprofit leadership. Before being named CEO of the Nonprofit Leadership Lab, Glennda led NYC’s LGBT Center, worked alongside Gloria Steinem and Jane Fonda at the Women’s Media Center, and fought for LGBT media visibility at GLAAD.
Through their lab, keynotes, and the Nonprofits Are Messy podcast, Joan and Glennda are in conversation with millions of good deed doers in over 150 countries.
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