Board Governance: The Four Core Elements

This session provides an overview of the foundations of effective board governance. It provides an understanding of board governance through four simple core principles that, taken together, produce a complete model of governance. While non-profit board governance is never easy, it need not be cumbersome and confusing. Take your board to the next level of non-profit leadership by grasping and applying these four core elements! 

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CONTRIBUTOR: Merle Herr

SERIES: REACH 2017

• A Businessman's Perspective on Fundraising
• A Call to Battle
• A Servant Heart
• An Effective Newsletter
• Attitude and Heartbeat of A Successful Volunteer
• Authentic Leadership
• Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility
• Avoiding Burnout: Maintaining Spiritual Vitality
• Becoming A Global Christian
• Being Great at Home
• Beliefs: From Claiming to Owning
• Bible Translation: Why Not Leave It for Wycliffe?
• Board Governance: The Four Core Elements
• Building Confidence with Your Support Base
• Building Spiritual Relationships
• Building Trust in Leadership Teams
• Business and Brotherhood: Rethinking the Relationship
• But What Can I Do?
• Chairing Nonprofit Boards
• Clarifying Mission Vision and Values
• Communicating the Gospel with Clarity and Power
• Conducting Bible Studies with the Unchurched
• Course Correction Panel Discussion
• Cross-Cultural Communication
• Cross-Cultural Ministry in Urban America
• Defending Your Faith
• Developing Your Leadership To-Be List
• Digging for Gold
• Dignity and Depravity
• Effective Board Structure and Processes
• Effectively Leading a Team
• Establishing National Churches in the Developing World
• Family as Ministry
• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Financing Your Vision For Missions without Fundraisers!
• Finding and Refining Your Story
• Five Essential Traits of Christian Leadership
• Funding Your Ministry with Gifts of Net Worth
• Get in the Way of Evil
• God Loves Story
• God's Glory in the Refugee Crisis in Lesvos Greece
• Graduation: Then What?
• Great Leaders
• Heritage: Owning Reality to Seize Opportunity
• Keeping the Family the Number One Ministry
• Keeping the Vision in a Support Role
• Leadership Challenges During Times of Transition
• Leading and Chairing Meetings
• Lesson Components for Teaching
• Lessons Learned in Parenting 24 Children in 34 Years
• Life's Two Most Important Questions
• Lifetime Career in Ministry
• Longevity in Mission
• Maintaining an Organizational Vision
• Maintaining Healthy Cross-Gender Relationships
• Maintaining Momentum through Transition
• Making Content that Makes a Difference
• Meeting and Befriending Muslims
• Meeting the Medical Needs of Ministry Staff
• Ministering Cross-Culturally
• Ministering to Your Neighbors
• Ministry Opportunities in Asia
• Ministry: Mastering Service while Serving the Master
• Moral Purity and Ministry
• Nonprofit Fundraising through Estate Planning
• Nonresistance and the Gospel
• Ordering Your Digital World
• People Are Going to Hell: Why Bother with Aid?
• Practical Suggestions for Making Disciples
• Practical Suggestions for Sharing the Gospel
• Prayer in Leadership
• Priorities in Ministry as a Wife, Mother, and Grandmother
• Raising a Family on the Mission Field
• Recruiting Ministry Personnel
• Reevaluating Your Ministry
• Relating to Old Order Amish and Mennonite Donors
• Seeking to Excel in Service
• Serving behind the Scenes
• Slaying Giant Despair
• Stewards of Eternal Treasure
• Stronger Together
• That I May Know Him: Deepening Our Walk with Jesus
• The Annual Audit
• The Challenge of Relationship in Ministry
• The Deacons Choice
• The Essence of the Great Commission
• The Excitement and Challenges of Starting a New Ministry
• The Foreigner among Us
• The Habits of an Effective Team
• The Joy of Being God's Woman
• The Joy of Husband and Wife Relationships
• The Missionary Adapts to a Foreign Culture
• The Paperless Office
• The Power of a Three-Fold Cord
• The Tragedy of a Wasted Life
• This Is Not the Life I Signed Up For
• Understanding the Times
• Unseen Integrity
• Using Humanitarian Efforts to Foster Adult Conversions
• What Can Asian Christians Teach Anabaptists?
• What Is Storytelling and Why Does It Change People?
• What Is That in Your Hand?
• What Shall I Do? Managing Time and Priorities
• Why You Should Prepare to Teach
• Women Navigating Difficult Relationships
• Women Reaching Women with the Gospel
• Working with Generation iY