Nonprofit Board Leadership
Explores nonprofit board leadership, roles, and strategic focus within community and civic engagement contexts, grounded in civil society and social science foundations.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Describe the basic roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit board of directors, including the legal duties of the board, roles of officers, and the strategic contributions of committees and individual members, across a span of size and type of organizations, and the distinguishing characteristics of board and chief executive roles.
Articulate the strategic challenges and opportunities facing a range of nonprofit organizations, and how board governance functions and positively supports organizations.
Identify best practices for board meetings and recognize the processes and protocols used by the board to engage, conduct decision-making, and fulfill duties, including strategies in accordance with their nonprofit's mission.
Evaluate the ways in which boards can motivate organizations to be successful and sustainable.
Analyze boards and board practices as sources of representation, management, compliance, oversight, and power.
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Nonprofit boards of directors serve as organizational leadership that navigates the efficacy, growth, strategic focus, and adherence to mission and vision of a nonprofit. Engages in comprehensive understanding of how board leadership operates in community and civic engagement. Examines the roles, responsibilities, challenges, and critiques of nonprofit board leadership. Grounded in civil society and social science foundations with opportunities for community-facing and applied learning through research, case study, and informational interviews with real-life organizations. Includes analysis of historical approaches, current trends, and community-engaged observation and learning in nonprofit boards.
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Topics
- Roles, responsibilities, challenges, and critiques of nonprofit board leadership.
- Board leadership operations in community and civic engagement.
- Civil society and social science foundations; applied learning via research, case studies, and interviews.
- Historical approaches, current trends, and community-engaged observation in nonprofit boards.
Skills
- Describe roles, responsibilities, legal duties, and officer functions of nonprofit boards.
- Articulate strategic challenges, opportunities, and governance functions in nonprofits.
- Identify best practices, processes, and protocols for board decision-making and duty fulfillment.
- Evaluate how boards motivate organizational success and sustainability.
- Analyze boards as sources of representation, management, compliance, oversight, and power.
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