Accountability, Legal, Lobbying, Ethics and Risk

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Accountability
Legal Considerations
Lobbying (Nonprofit)
Ethical Considerations
Insurance and Risk Management

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Accountability

Better Accountability: A Different Approach
for Reporting to the Membership
Governing for What Matters: A Model for Community-Driven
Governance
Nonprofit
Governance and Accountability
More Oversight Matters

Legal Considerations

Nonprofit

What are the Board Member’s Legal Responsibilities?

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Implications for Nonprofit Organizations

Broadbent Report (Canadian Report)

For-Profit

Sarbanes-Oxley Act (for for-profits and nonprofits)
Overview
of legal considerations
Overview
of Liability Insurance (including Directors’ and Officers’ Insurance)
Is Our Corporation Complying With All the New
Laws and Regulations?
Legal Tips for New Directors – video link
Boardroom Liabilities: Shining a Spotlight on
Risk
More on “Dodd-Frank: What is the ‘Sleeper’?”
UK Corporate Governance Code
Opening the Floodgates: The Dodd-Frank Whistleblower
Provisions’ Impact on Corporate America
Whistleblowers: Change in the Playing Field?

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Business
Law

Lobbying (Nonprofit)

Lobbying
and Taxes

Ethical Considerations

Five
Questions that Corporate Boards of Directors Should Ask (for-profit)
Guide
to Managing Ethics in the Workplace
Ethical Guidelines for Board Members of Not-for-Profit
Organizations
Fit
and Improper
Board Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility

Ethics and Compliance: What Fortune 500 Boards
Should do Now

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Business
Ethics

Insurance and Risk Management

How to Minimize Liabilities of Nonprofit Board
Members
A Primer on D&O Insurance
Why Purchase D&O Insurance?
Insurance
Considerations for Board Members
Risk Management Resources
Risk Management Topic in Free Management Library
Crisis
Management Topic in Free Management Library
D&O Liability Insurance: Right Coverage, Right
Time
Ten Ways Risk Oversight Can Fail
Audit Committees Monitor Control Functions, Risk
Committees Provide Oversight of a Strategic Function
What
Audit Committees Don’t Know
Ten To-Do’s for Audit Committees in 2011
Where were the auditors?

How to Determine Whether to Insure Directors and Officers
What
works in Communicating Bad News to Management and the Board?
Are board members of an NPO personally liable
for the nonprofit’s debts?

A Fistful of Risks
Finding the Right Chief Risk Officer

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Business
Insurance

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