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| Don't Let This Happen to Your Organization | The Full Cost of Embezzlement | |
| While the current report of embezzlement at Eaton Rapids Housing Development Authority reported in the April 6, 2004 Lansing State Journal is sad, it is not an isolated event. It is becoming more and more common to read similar reports in the daily news. Each story is slightly different, but at the same time hauntingly familiar. It goes something like this.... |
As we are too frequently and sadly made aware by recent headlines, both for-profit and non-profit organizations may have trusted employees and volunteers who steal from them. The cost today is obvious, the lost funds and the reduction in programs and services which they would have funded. Then the recognition sets in that there are future costs.... |
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| See complete article: Don't Let This Happen to Your Organization |
See complete article: The Full Cost of Embezzlement |
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| Strategic Planning with Policy Governance® | Policy Manual User's Guide | |
| When an organization begins to practice Policy Governance® it has to learn new ways fulfilling its role. The principles, structure, and processes combine to make Policy Governance a complete and integrated system with a much higher impact on organizational mission. Because of this the nature or extent of the board's involvement in certain activities changes. One of the areas in which this is true is that of strategic planning.... | What is the board's role? Some say that it is to watch after management. How can the board lead if they are watching 'after'? This indicates that they let the manager act first, and then correct them if they make a mistake. This is not leadership.... | |
| See complete article: Strategic Planning with Policy Governance® |
See complete article: Policy Manual User's Guide |
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| Maximizing Board Effectiveness | Board Concerns and Worries - Letting Go of the Wheel |
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| Maximizing nonprofit boards' effectiveness is important for two reasons. First, the missions of non-profits are important to the world. Second, volunteer leaders provide a valuable resource that should not be squandered.... | The Board has full accountability to the owners for every outcome that occurs in the organization. At the same time it can not expect to actually do the work of the organization so it usually hires a CEO and delegates most of the authority for “getting it done” to that position. Even though they have delegated authority they retain full accountability.... | |
| See complete article: Maximizing Board Effectiveness |
See complete article: Board Concerns and Worries - Letting Go of the Wheel |
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| Policy Governance®
in a Nutshell by John Carver |
Governance Model Comparisons | |
| John Carver's Policy Governance® model is the world's only complete, universal theory of governance—a conceptually coherent paradigm of principles and concepts (not of structure). The model enables boards—as "servant-leaders" of shareholders, public, members (or other "ownership" equivalent)—to ensure that organizations achieve board-stated goals and conduct themselves with probity.... | Comparing Policy Governance against traditional governance models.... | |
| See complete article: Policy Governance® in a Nutshell by John Carver |
See complete article: Governance Model Comparisons |
