But what’s a board to do when this dynamic cross-section of do-gooders can’t seem to get anything done? Nonprofit board membership is a unique and challenging job, and it is often wildly different from the professional world that go-getting board members know from their everyday workplace. Without proper training, mentoring, and guidance, even the most highly accomplished board members can find themselves lost or overwhelmed.
In DOING GOOD EVEN BETTER: How to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization (Good Books; November 2007, $9.95/paperback)
In short, pointedly written chapters, Edgar Stoesz offers practical, ready-to-go material for board members who are stiffly new or wearily veteran. This book covers:
• Helping Directors Understand Their Governance Role
• A Plan to Fulfill the Purpose
• Reporting Back to the Members
• Planning Effective Meetings
• Great Boards Have a Good Fight (occasionally)
• Working Your Way Through a Crisis
• Great Boards Celebrate
• Leaving Right
Whether looking to shake things up with new ideas, or learning the ropes as a recently formed non-profit, DOING GOOD EVEN BETTER can help any board succeed. Complete with “Discussion/
Over 1.5 million non-profits are working hard to make positive change in the U.S. today – 500,000 of which have been created in the last ten years. There couldn’t be a better time to help these organizations onto the path to greatness. DOING GOOD EVEN BETTER will show them how.
About Edgar Stoesz
Edgar Stoesz has spent most of his adult life in nonprofit organizations, both as director and employee. He was a staff member of Mennonite Central Committee for 33 years, seven of those as Associate Executive Secretary. He served as President-CEO of Mennonite Indemnity for 34 years. Stoesz spent six years on the board of Habitat for Humanity International, four of those years as Chair. And while in that position, he worked closely with former President Jimmy Carter. He is currently First Vice President of Hospital Albert Schweitzer (Haiti). Presently he also chairs the board of the American Leprosy mission.
In his administrative responsibilities, he has visited more than 50 countries. He has contributed articles to many publications and addressed audiences on a variety of subjects related to his service.
He is the author of Doing Good Better and Common Sense for Board Members, and the editor of Meditations for Meetings, all published by Good Books.
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DOING GOOD EVEN BETTER
How to be an Effective Board Member of a Nonprofit Organization
by Edgar Stoesz
Good Books
November 2007
$9.95/paperback
ISBN: 978-1-56148-
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