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Pre-Conference and Conference
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Wednesday, April 13 |
Pre-Conference Workshop:
Strategies for Building
Successful Boards:
A Workshop for Leaders
and Executives
of Nonprofit Organizations
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1:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
“Insights from the Field:
Results of the NPQ Survey of Readers on the Status of
Their Nonprofit Boards.” Ruth McCambridge,
Editor-in-Chief of
The
Nonprofit Quarterly
and an
experienced nonprofit board and management consultant,
will discuss the realities of nonprofit board work and
share her observations about how nonprofits across the
U.S. are working to address these challenges and
strengthen their boards.
“Part 1: Strategies for Strengthening
Boards: Practices that Make A Difference.” William Brown
(Texas A&M) and Chao Guo (University of Georgia), two
leading consultants and researchers in the field of
nonprofit boards and governance, will share insights
from their research and consulting work on some of the
most useful and effective of practices and strategies
that nonprofit boards are using to enhance their
capacity, and they will discuss their insights on the
ways these practices have been helping boards and their
members to be more effective and successful.
[PowerPoint
Presentation]
Handouts:
Strategies for Strengthening Boards and
Nonprofit Notes Key Roles issue 1.1
“Part 2: Recruiting and Engaging the
Right People: Strategies for Diversity and Inclusion.”
William Brown and Chao Guo will build on the ideas and
concepts of Part 1 with a more targeted and explicit
look at the ways that nonprofit organizations can bring
the best people to the table as members of their boards.
Brown and Guo will talk about recruitment and selection
of members, and then address how effective boards not
only bring the right people to the table – they take
care to ensure that they are fully and effectively
engaged.
[PowerPoint
Presentation]
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Thursday, April 14 |
Governance Conference:
Creating
a New Normal: Advancing Governance Theory
and Practice Conference
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8:30 – 10:30 a.m. |
Opening Plenary |
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Welcome –
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Ruth McCambridge, Nonprofit Quarterly
David Renz, Midwest
Center
for Nonprofit Leadership
Brent Never, Midwest
Center for Nonprofit Leadership
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Plenary Address: Taking Stock: A Brief Assessment What We Know
About Nonprofit Boards and Governance
William Brown, Texas A&M
[PowerPoint
Presentation]
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10:45 – 11:45 a.m. |
Round Table Session: Creating The New Normal? |
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Noon – 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon Plenary |
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Plenary Address-
Insights from the Field: Results of the NPQ Survey of Readers on
the Status of Their Nonprofit Boards.
Ruth McCambridge, Editor-in-Chief.
The Nonprofit Quarterly
Response: David Renz, Midwest Center for
Nonprofit Leadership
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1:45 – 3:15 p.m. |
Concurrent Paper Sessions |
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Session C |
Relations Between Board Chairs and Chief
Executives
Pamela Leland “Empowerment versus codependency? Exploring the
board-executive director relationship and its connection to good
governance.” [Abstract]
Susan Neustrom “The dyadic relationship between an executive
director and board chair during turbulent times.”
[Abstract] |
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Session D |
Boards, Governance, and Decision Making
Mark Engle “Decision quality and commitment in association
boards: Impacts of cognitive and affective conflict, procedural
rationality, and relational practices.”
[Abstract] [Paper]
Tosha Cantrell-Bruce & Brent Never “Patterns of information
consumption by nonprofit boards.”
[Abstract]
Judy Freiwirth “Community
Engagement Governance: System-Wide Governance for
Community Impact.”
[Abstract] |
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3:30 – 5:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Dialogue Sessions |
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Session E |
Hybrid Structures and Innovations in Governance
New and unique forms of organization and
organized action are becoming increasingly prominent in the
sector, including various forms of networks, cross-sector
alliances, and distributed systems of service delivery.
What do we know about these different forms?
How they are being led and governed? How do they interact
with more conventional forms of governance and organization?
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Session F |
Engaging New
Generations In Board Work
How are boards successfully recruiting and
engaging younger and increasingly diverse communities of
emerging leaders? What
are we learning about the implications of generational change,
inclusion, and leadership and succession issues for nonprofits
and their boards?
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Friday, April 24 |
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8:30 – 10:00 a.m. |
Concurrent Paper Sessions |
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Session G |
Board Dynamics
Erica Clinton, Wendy Hershberger & Brent Never “Informal
gender roles on boards: The effect of emotional labor on how
boards function.”
[Abstract]
Douglas Ihrke, E. Grant MacDonald, Barbara Duffy & John Paul
Finan. “The nature of conflict on nonprofit boards.”
[Abstract]
Brent Never, Erin Nemenoff & Jim Doyle “The use of
organizational champions: Boards as bridges to resources.”
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Session H |
Boards, Outcomes, and Effectiveness
Lore
Wellens & Marc Jegers “Broadened accountability: A tool for
increasing nonprofit organizational effectiveness.”
[Abstract]
Fredrik O. Andersson “Innovation and nonprofit boards: an
empirical examination.”
[Abstract]
Chao Guo & Zhibin Zhang “The governance of Chinese
nonprofit organizations: A literature review, synthesis and
research agenda.”
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10:15 – 11:45 a.m. |
Concurrent Dialogue Sessions |
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Session I |
Social Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Board Behavior
Boards of nonprofit organizations are mandated to
behave as prudent stewards of resources, yet they also are
exhorted to become more entrepreneurial and take new kinds of
risks. How are boards
responding, and what are the implications of such expectations
for boards and the practice of governance?
As nonprofit and for-profit forms of enterprise continue
to blend, what are we learning that might help us understand the
similarities and differences of governance for each?
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Session J |
The Future of Research on Nonprofit Boards and Governance
As
we identify and work to understand all of these kinds of
challenges and dynamics, are we developing new research models
or methods that are better suited to the next generation of
governance research? What
is next as we continue to work to understand and develop the
boards of the future?
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Noon – 1:45 p.m. |
Luncheon Plenary: Beyond Diversity: Building the
“Representational Capacity” of the Nonprofit Board
Chao Guo,
University of Georgia
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[PowerPoint
Presentation]
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1:45 - 2:00 p.m. |
Closing Comments
Brent Never, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership
Ruth McCambridge, The Nonprofit Quarterly
David Renz, Midwest
Center for Nonprofit Leadership
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