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Good Governance for Nonprofits: Developing Principles and Policies for an Effective Board

The Imperfect Board Member: Discovering the Seven Disciplines of Governance Excellence

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Ten Attributes of Great Ministry Boards

The Andringa Group | posted 10/24/2007

This article provided by the Engstrom Institute

A great ministry almost always has a great board, and a great board scores high on these attributes. Use this as a checklist to see where your board is strong and where you may need to make adjustments to be more effective.

Adopt a philosophy of governance so that the board and CEO do not compete. Rather they serve separate, complementary roles and function as partners in a trust relationship.
Embrace a clear, relevant and timely purpose/mission along with the values, strategies and monitoring activities to accomplish specific goals.
Select a board-oriented CEO who is equipped to advance the mission within board established policy parameters. Then the board governs in ways that support, compensate fairly, evaluate, and if necessary, terminate the CEO, always keeping the best interests of the ministry in mind.
Elect a chair who is able and willing to manage the board and to maintain the integrity of the structure and process that the whole board has determined is best, leaving management to the CEO.