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Assessing Board Performance: Best Practices for Community Banks

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Behind every community bank or credit union is a hardworking board. Community banking organizations can only get an accurate view of board performance through annual board evaluations that incorporate best practices for board assessments , with attention to individual performances and the board as a whole.

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5 Key Trends Impacting Nonprofit Governance Plus Key Questions Boards Need To Be Asking 

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Good governance for nonprofits is hard. This article outlines 5 key trends impacting governance for nonprofits and shares key questions that boards need to be asking, along with suggestions for strategies to start tackling them. Suggested next steps: Encourage the board to have tough conversations. There’s a lot to worry about.

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A Conversation with 2020 Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang

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I started Venture for America back in 2011 with the goal of creating thousands of American jobs in communities around the country. But at this point, our government is so backward, dysfunctional and unresponsive that it’s not even on the agenda. Then the government says ‘hey, great news! The poverty line is $12,490 a year./

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The Wealth Transfer Movement: An Opportunity to Reimagine Nonprofit Governance

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With philanthropic giving at an all-time high, it’s generating a new sense of freedom for nonprofits, allowing them to reimagine governance like never before. Nonprofits: Ready, Set, Reimagine Governance. Enhancing partnerships between your nonprofit and the government and corporate sectors where all partners have equal footing.

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Experts share tips for mission-driven organizations on DE&I

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Mission-driven organizations strive to serve their communities and constituents with integrity and purpose. The profound impact of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is a centerpiece of the stewardship of these organizations; sustained and effective social response and problem solving requires diverse and inclusive governance.

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Harnessing AI’s power, and managing the responsibility, with Diligent’s Nonie Dalton

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Diligent and BoardEffect have written extensively about artificial intelligence (AI) over the years, from how nonprofit organizations can benefit to expert tips for AI implementation to guidance on AI governance. Nonie Dalton, VP of product management for BoardEffect and Diligent Community, carries the conversation into the new year.

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AI and Nonprofits: What Boards Need to Know

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Beth Kanter, Allison Fine, and Philip Deng write in the Stanford Social Innovation Review : “Used carefully and skillfully, AI has the potential to save people thousands of hours of rote, time-consuming work a year, freeing them up to do the kinds of things only people can do: solve problems, deepen relationships, and build communities.”