Governance

The League gathers materials designed to assist board members as they make decisions about responsibilities, opportunities, fundraising, and governance.

• Resource Papers and Publications >>
• PowerPoints from 2009 Conference >>
• Webinars >>
• Other non-League Materials >>
• Suggested Reading >>
  

Resource Papers and Publications

• Good Governance for Challenging Times, Lowell J. Noteboom, Board Chair, League of American Orchestras

• Orchestra's Guide to Ethics and Accountability

• The Board of Directors Self-Assessment Tool
  Designed to address issues of importance unique to orchestra boards

• Board Notes

From 2009 Conference 

• PR and the New IRS Form 990
  (Constituency Meeting Presentation)
  Download the PowerPoint presentation from Conference:
  The New Form 990 (PPT)

Webinars

• The New Form 990: Are You Ready?
  The changes have an impact on your organization and its staff.  Find out now what you need to know

Other non-League Materials

• Five Challenges Facing Nonprofit Boards, from GuideStar
• BoardSource Toolkit: Surviving the Financial Crisis
• BoardSource Toolkit: Who’s minding the money?
• Board Café
• Blue Avocado – Practical, provocative and fun food for thought for Not Profits
• Economic Downturn Articles from Blue Avocado
• BoardSource dissects the entire Form 990 and explains why your governance should care
• Helpful Q&A from BoardSource
• Webinars from Center for Creative Leadership

Suggested Reading

• Boards That Make a Difference (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) by John Carver
• Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards by Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor
• The New Work of the Nonprofit Board   by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland 
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
• Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
• Nonprofit Boards That Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-A​ll Governance by Maureen Robinson
• Driving Strategic Planning: A Nonprofit Executive's Guide, Second Edition by Sue Waechter, from BoardSource
• Nonprofit Executive Compensation:  Planning, Performance and Pay, Second Edition, from BoardSource