Articles & Recommended Reading
From the League
- Symphony Magazine Winter 2014, "Board Room": League Board Chair Patricia A. Richard on What It Takes to Lead
- Symphony Magazine Summer 2014 "Board Room": An Excerpt from Susan Howlett's Book Boards on Fire
- “Mental Maps to a New Governance Model,” by Cathy Trower
- “The Gremlins of Governance,” by Richard Chait
- “Governing Toward the Future,” by Fred Miller
- “Governance Is Governance,” by Kenneth N. Dayton
- “The New Work of the Nonprofit Board,” by Barbara E, Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland
- “Charting a Path,” by Lowell Noteboom and John Goldman
- "Good Governance for Challenging Times,” by Lowell Noteboom, Chair, League of American Orchestras (2003)
- “Stress Factors, ” An interview with Lowell Noteboom, Chair, League of American Orchestras, (2010)
- "The Practitioner's Guide to Governance as Leadership: Building High-Performing Nonprofit Boards"
by Cathy A. Trower
- “The Board Chair Handbook," 2nd Edition (BoardSource publication)
- Boards That Make a Difference (J-B Carver Board Governance Series) by John Carver
- Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards by Richard P. Chait, William P. Ryan, and Barbara E. Taylor
- The New Work of the Nonprofit Board by Barbara E. Taylor, Richard P. Chait, and Thomas P. Holland
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins
- Good to Great and the Social Sectors: A Monograph to Accompany Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins
- Nonprofit Boards That Work: The End of One-Size-Fits-All Governance by Maureen Robinson
- Driving Strategic Planning: A Nonprofit Executive's Guide, Second Edition by Sue Waechter, from BoardSource
- Nonprofit Executive Compensation: Planning, Performance and Pay, Second Edition, from BoardSource
Other non-League Materials
- Checklist to Evaluate a Nonprofit Board of Directors (from Free Management Library)
- Self-Assessment for Nonprofit Governing Boards, User's Guide and Questionnaire (from PND)
- BoardSource: Handbook of Nonprofit Governance (2010 edition)
- BoardSource Toolkit: Surviving the Financial Crisis
- BoardSource Toolkit: Who's Minding the Money?
- BoardSource Toolkit: Fearless Filing: Conquering Form 990's Governance Questions
- Blue Avocado – Practical, provocative and fun food for thought for Not Profits
- Webinars from Center for Creative Leadership