Governance

Board Roles & Responsibilities

• Taking Nonprofit Meeting Minutes Like a Pro CharityLawyer Blog
  
• A Good Board Member ABA Division for Bar Services
• Toward an Exceptional Board New Bar Board Member excerpt
  
• Board Members as Ambassadors ABA Division for Bar Services
  
• Board Duties and Staff Support Solid Ground Consulting
• Fiduciary duty case studies BoardLink
• How Board Members Can Learn to Spot Red Flags Nonprofit Quarterly
  

Governance Master Class

• 6 Strategies for Leading Through Uncertainty (Harvard Business Review)
• The Arkansas Bar Association: A case study in major governance restructuring (Bar Leader Magazine)
  
• Does a new day demand a fresh look at association governance? Provocative advice at BLI (Bar Leader Magazine)
• “Post-race analysis…” (Mary Byers)

Videos, Publications & Tools to Support Board Orientation and Learning

• Board Catalyst Shorts – 5-12 minute streaming videos covering foundational board topics
• Board Catalyst Webinars – 45 minute live/on-demand webinars featuring advanced governance issues and bar trends
• Guidelines for Discussion
• Schedule of Authority New Bar Board Member excerpt
• Sample program and activity evaluation matrix
• New Bar Board Member publication
• BoardLink archives

Other Governance Help from Bar Services

• Strategic Planning
• Board Training
  

Building Your Board

• Finding the Right Board Members for your Nonprofit National Council for Nonprofits
• Board Orientation and Education BoardLink
  

Our Other Favorite Resources

• Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards
• Compass Point
  
• Bob Harris
• BoardSource
• ASAE
• Marc Smiley
• Help4Nonprofits
• Leadership Resource Page
• Future of the Profession Resource Page
  

Contact

Questions on this topic? Contact Jennifer Lewin, Deputy Director, ABA Division for Bar Services.

E: jennifer.lewin@americanbar.org
P: (312) 988-5361