Forming Committees

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Forming Committees

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Forming Committees

Should We Form a Board Committee?
Governance Committees: Positive Trend on Nonprofit Boards | CompassPoint
Should Boards Have Committees, and if so, Which Ones? | CompassPoint
Typical Types of Board Committees
Advantages and Potential Disadvantages of Nonprofit Board Committees
5 Workplace Committees to Form and Their Business Benefits | Inc.com (for-profit)
Committee Essentials
Sample Committee Work Plan
Should We Form a Board Committee?
Effective Committees


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Finance Committees

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Finance Committees

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Overview of a Board Finance Committee

The Board Finance Committee is a usually standing committee chartered to guide,
oversee and support the financial and tax practices of the organization, including
approval and conformance regarding up-to-date fiscal policies and procedures;
development of the annual budget; and ensuring accurate tracking and analysis
of financial highlights, trends and issues. It also ensures conformance to relevant
financial and tax rules and regulations, as well as standards of accounting.
Typically annual recurring goals of this committee might be to:

  1. Ensure conformance to relevant rules and regulations affecting financial
    management and taxes, e.g., IRS and Sarbanes Oxley.
  2. Ensure accuracy and efficiency of financial management by reviewing and
    updating the fiscal policies and procedures, and training all Board members
    and relevant leaders about the policies and procedures.
  3. Train other Board members and leaders in the organization how to analyze
    financial data and make appropriate decisions.
  4. Ensure organizational sustainability by developing appropriate budgets
    (operating, product/program-based, etc.) that are approved by the Board.
  5. Ensure ongoing effectiveness and efficiency in management of financial
    resources with timely generation and analysis of relevant financial information.
  6. Ensure effectiveness and focus of revenue development by establishing revenue
    targets for each product/program where appropriate.
  7. Ensure sufficient protection of assets, including through risk assessment
    and responding strategies, e.g., insurance protection and sound cash management.

The Committee should have a work plan that itemizes these, or very similar,
annual goals and also associated objectives with each goal such that when the
objectives are achieved in total, they also will have achieved its respective
goal. When committees do not have work plans, they often flounder in finding
valuable and focused means to provide value to the Board. Unfortunately, in
these situations, many Board mistakenly conclude that “committees do not
work”, or they reduce the number of committees, thinking that inactive
committees were because there were too many — rather than realizing that committees
can be extremely useful when focused on the most important annual recurring
goals.

Additional Perspectives on Finance Committees

The Finance Committee and Committee Chair Responsibilities | Nonprofit Accounting Basics
Creating a Financial and Audit Committee
Nonprofit Finance Committee Explanation
The Role Of Your Finance Committee
Nonprofit Finance vs Audit Committees | Minnesota Council of Nonprofits
Board Finance Committee


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Executive Committees

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Executive Committees

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UNHCR – Executive Committee (sample committee)
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What Are the Duties of an Executive Committee? | eHow.com
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Compensation Committees

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Compensation Committees

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Compensation Committees

Compensation Committee | Center for Corporate Governance
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The Role Of Compensation Committees In Corporate Governance – FindLaw
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Audit Committees

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Audit Committees

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Audit Committees

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Advisory Committees

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Advisory Committees

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Advisory Committees

Advisory board – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tips: Ten Tips to Creating an Effective Advisory Board
Small-Business Guide – Creating a Board to Turn To, Just for Advice – NYTimes.com
Use it Today – Roles and Responsibilities of Advisory Boards
Building an Effective Advisory Committee
How to Create an Advisory Board
Creating an Advisory Board – Advisory Boards
How to Create Advisory Committee for Your Business | MoreBusiness.com
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Advisory Committee – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Guidelines to Form a Nonprofit Advisory Board
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Advisory Board – Agenda For First Advisory Board Meeting
Here’s Why Advisory Boards Are Often Useless | Boards of Directors
The Non-Profit Advisory Board/Committee | Fundraising for Nonprofits
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Hiring the CEO

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Hiring the CEO

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When founders need to hire a CEO ro replace themselves (for-profit)
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Hiring or Working as an Interim CEO

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Hiring or Working as an Interim CEO

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What is an Interim CEO?

Basically, an interim CEO is an executive that is hired by the corporation’s Board of Directors (for-profit or nonprofit) as a temporary person to fill that role until a permanent replacement is hired.

One reason for hiring an interim CEO is because that person suddenly left that role due to serious illness or death. Concurrently, the organization did not have sufficient succession planning to deal with that crisis. Another reason is that the CEO had to take a leave of absence, which had a high likelihood that the person would be returning in a matter of months, for example, less than a year. Yet another reason is that the Board has decided that the organization needs a different set of skills in the CEO role. For example, the organization might need to undergo a major change and needs a CEO will strong skills in guiding successful change, and it is clear that the current CEO does not have — or cannot soon develop — those skills.

It should be noted that the vast majority of information about interim CEOs is applicable to both for-profit and nonprofit corporations. Major differences between organizations depend on the current life stage of the organization, its culture and its current strategic priorities — much more than differences between their missions. For example, a small nonprofit is much more like a small for-profit than a large nonprofit. Key differences between the role of CEO in a for-profit compared to nonprofit might be more in regard to whether the for-profit is a publicly listed business and, thus, has strong priorities about satisfying shareholders.

The following articles give basic definitions of the role of an interim CEO.

Hiring an Interim CEO

The hiring of an interim CEO has most of the considerations of hiring a permanent CEO — and more. The candidate should be readily available to hire and ideally have somewhat similar experience in a somewhat similar industry and organization. He or she also needs to successfully work in a temporary situation, which means quickly establishing and maintaining successful working relationships with key stakeholders, for example, Board members, employees and significant representatives among external constituents. The person also needs strong skills in transition management, including to lessen any impact of the previous CEO’s leaving and a new permanent CEO replacing the interim. These skills need to be successfully utilized with others who know that the person in the interim role will not be around for the long term.

Working as an Interim CEO

Whether you are hiring an interim or considering being one, the following articles will give you more perspective on the role, and how the person in it will likely work with others in and around the organization.

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Chief Executive Officer Compensation

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Executive Compensation

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CEO Succession

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CEO Succession

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