Posts Tagged ‘Board of Directors’

Nonprofit Boards Roles, Responsibilities, and Performance (Nonprofit Law, Finance and Management Series) by Diane J. Duca

Any nonprofit that wants to survive beyond the nineties had better be governed by an effective, flexible board of directors. But what role should a nonprofit board play in fulfilling the organization’s mission? How should the board carry out its responsibility to see that funds and other resources are used in the most efficient possible manner? How can the board perform its duties without alienating staff members? What pitfalls can divert a nonprofit board from addressing critical board functions?

Nonprofit Boards: Roles, Responsibilities, and Performance answers these questions and many more. This practical guide is dedicated to helping nonprofit board members, chairpersons, and executive directors develop and manage effective boards, empowered to respond to the special needs of their organizations. Diane J. Duca offers different ways to approach organizing and utilizing a board by presenting different board models. Using case studies and illustrations from real-life situations, she explores every aspect of board management, clarifies the roles of board members and executives, and discusses the board’s legal and ethical obligations.

Arts Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts Audiences
Joanne Scheff Bernstein

Arts Marketing Insights offers managers, board members, professors, and students of arts management the ideas and information they need to market effectively and efficiently to customers today and into the future. In this book, Joanne Scheff Bernstein helps readers to understand performing arts audiences, conduct research, and provide excellent customer service. She demonstrates that arts organizations can benefit by expanding the meaning of “valuable customer” to include single-ticket buyers. She offers guidance on long-range marketing planning and helps readers understand how to leverage the Internet and e-mail as powerful marketing channels. Bernstein presents vivid case studies and examples that illustrate her strategic principles in action from organizations large and small in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and other countries.

The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations by James T. Horan Jr.

If you are responsible for founding or managing a non-profit
organization… this book was written just for you! Now you can easily
write a draft plan on a single page in less than two hours. Thousands
of non-profits have already successfully written and implemented One
Page Plans with this simple and effective planning methodology. This
special version of The One Page Business Plan has been called "The One
Page Promise" because it helps directors, boards, management and
volunteers clearly define and live up to their promises at
organizational, departmental, project and program levels… all in
fast, easy to communicate and actionable terms!