Creating Caring and Capable Boards

There are millions of people who serve on nonprofit boards each year. As trustees, they must not only lead their organizations to success but also act with knowledge, wisdom, and a deep regard for the common good. This unique book recognizes that trustee leadership must achieve far more than administrative and fiduciary success: instead, it offers a new vision of trustee leadership that embodies caring, effective governance.

Presenting an approach to strengthening non-profit boards of directors, this book offers a thoroughly tested process for strengthening a governing board's understanding of the organization and commitment to its goals and mission.

A Legacy in Jeopardy- Reclaiming the Origins and Language of Trusteeship; Recoving a Tradition of Trusteeship; What Does It Mean to Hold in Trust?; Preparation for Trusteeship: Connecting Being and Doing; Altruism and Authority: A Framework for Understanding the Development of - Trusteeship- The Detached- Resume Builders- The Compassionate- Trustee Leaders; The Power of Gift; Preparation for Depth Education- Preparing Leaders and Nurturing Trustees: A Model for Depth Education- The Presenting Need- Denial or Minimization of the Symptoms- Treat the Symptoms- Postpone the Solution- Reframing the Problem- Acceptance and Resolution; Organizational Readiness- Stage 1: Creation- Stage 2: Institutionalization- Stage 3: Community- Stage 4: Re-Creation; Organizational Assessment: Reading Reality Truthfully- Organizational Assessment- Request for Assistance: The First Step; History: Culture and Character- The Power of Story- Reading Organizational Culture- Using the History Timeline; Mission: Calling and Congruence; Publics: Context and Community; Future: Creation and Commitment- Follow Up; The Board as Leader;.