Insights into nonprofit leadership & governance
The Board’s Evolving Role: From Management to Governance
December 14, 2018
As nonprofits, foundations and other tax-exempt organizations develop, the role of the board and its individual members changes. At one extreme, the start-up, the board may do everything from licking envelopes to setting strategy. In truly mature organizations, the board may be so removed from the day-to-day work as to feel disconnected from the organization’s principal mission.
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