Chapter 1 - Getting Started on the Right Foot
Don't Let the Board Mess Around with Mission
If You're the First Executive Director of an Already Functioning Agency Trustees Are Not Volunteers, So Don't Treat Them As Such
Exploit Your Board Chair
Don't Blame the Trustees for Being Naïve about Trusteeship
You Are the Prime Educator to Your Board
Chapter 2 - Remembering Roles
The Board Owns the Agency
Knowledge for You To Provide to Your Board
Be Proud of the Nonprofit Tradition
The Tradition Survives, in Strange Places
Chapter 3 - The Nitty Gritty of the ED's Job Planning
Let's Just Call It Money (or Resources if You're Squeamish)
Working with Funders and Other Constituencies
The Board Makes Policy for the Agency
I'm the Board and You're the Staff
The Comedy or Tragedy of Committees
Boring Board Meetings Are Your Fault
Chapter 4 - Board Relations Dammit!
Why Don't We Run This Place Like a Business?
Constituency Representation on a Board
Damage Control: Truth or Consequences
Chapter 5 - Vision and Leadership
Vision Leadership as a Concept
Leadership: The Usual Board/ED Kind
There's a Clear Distinction between Governance and Management
Chapter 6 - Looking Ahead The 20th Century
Competition for Survival
Now You're into Marketing and Program Delivery
Hone Up on Your Public Relations Consumerism Diversity
Stakeholders Assessment
Assessment, Its Many Manifestations
Chapter 7 - Working with Other Nonprofits
Strategic Alliances
How To Put Together a Near-Perfect Merger
Not So Fast, My Friends Chapter
Chapter 8 - Making Your Job Work Even Better
Avoid an Advisory Board
Should You Be a Voting Member of Your Board?
Tell Your Board: It's Caring that Counts, Not Just Care
My Life as a Consultant to Nonprofit Organizations
Wanted: Toughness
Still More on a Consultant's Life, but for Fun Only
Time Out
Chapter 9 - Inside the Life of the Nonprofit Governance Documents
Motivating Your Board
Getting your Staff On Board
The Gung-Ho New Board Chair
Your Agency Creates a Related Foundation
The Board's Accountability for Management: a Contradiction in Terms? Your Accountability for Management
Living with Risks Humane, Compassionate, and Benevolent Revisited
Appendixes
Appendix A - Ten Questions for Every Trustee
Appendix B - Tax Compliance Issues: A Primer for Nonprofit Executive Directors
Appendix C - Accounting Issues: A Primer for Nonprofit Executive Directors
Appendix D - Budgeting Issues: A Primer for Nonprofit Executive Directors
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