Part 3- Board and Governance

For Section 3 of the Final Project you will create a guide for these areas that nonprofit boards and executive directors can use to maximize their chances for success.

Section 3 should be 4-5 pages and include these Headings:

• Legal and Ethical Responsibilities
• Policy Formulation
• Fundraising
• Financial Oversight

Make sure to include this:

• Explain the board’s legal and ethical responsibilities and why they are important for the organization’s success.
• Include your assessment of an organization’s responsibility to bring about positive social change regarding the underlying problems that the organization exists to address.
• Include a listing of essential policies that the board should adopt.
• Explain the responsibilities of individual board members regarding fundraising and the board’s responsibilities for financial oversight.

Submit the draft of Final Project Section 3 for scholarly writing faculty review. Your draft should be 4–5 pages, contain a minimum of 5–6 specific, evidence-based best practices, and utilize proper APA formatting.

Resources

BoardSource. (2010). The handbook of nonprofit governance. San Francisco, CA: Wiley.

• Chapter 7, “Legal and Ethical Responsibilities” (pp.127–144)

BoardSource. (2016a). Coming to terms with a conflict of interest. Retrieved from https://boardsource.org/resources/coming-terms-conflict-of-interest/

BoardSource. (2016b). Creating policies. Retrieved from https://boardsource.org/resources/creating-policies/

BoardSource. (2016c). Legal and compliance issues-FAQs. Retrieved from https://boardsource.org/resources/legal-compliance-issues-faqs/

BoardSource. (2016d). Tax exemption. Retrieved from https://boardsource.org/resources/applying-tax-exemption/

Charity Navigator. (2015). Retrieved from https://www.charitynavigator.org/

BoardSource. (2010). The handbook of nonprofit governance. San Francisco, CA: Wiley.

• Chapter 8, “Financial Oversight” (pp.145–166)
• Chapter 9, “Fundraising” (pp.167–188)

https://boardsource.org/resources/personal-contributions/

https://boardsource.org/resources/fiduciary-responsibilities/

Hopkins, B.R. (2013). Wiley nonprofit authority: Bruce R. Hopkins Nonprofit Law Library: Essential questions and answers. Somerset, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

• Chapter 5, “Conflicts of Interest/Self-Dealing” (pp.127–157)
• Chapter 7, “Legislative Activities Rules” (pp. 185–194)

Reissová, A., Žambochová, M., & Vlčková, M. (2019). Fundraising as an Opportunity for Non-profit Organisations – Possibilities and Limits of Individual Fundraising. Czech & Slovak Social Work / Sociální Práce / Sociálna Práca, 19(1), 5–22.

Csongrádi, G., Reicher, R., & Takács, I. (2018). Latest Trends and Technologies at the Field of Non-Profit Fundraising. International Journal of Contemporary Management, 17(4), 43–62. https://doi.org/10.4467/24498939IJCM.18.036.10022

Becker, A. (2018). An Experimental Study of Voluntary Nonprofit Accountability and Effects on Public Trust, Reputation, Perceived Quality, and Donation Behavior. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 47(3), 562–582. https://doi.org/10.1177/0899764018756200

Dale, E. J. (2019). Reframing Nonprofit Organizations: Democracy, Inclusion, and Social Change: A. M. Eikenberry, R. M. Mirabella, and B. Sandberg (Eds.). Reframing nonprofit organizations: Democracy, inclusion, and social change. Irvine, CA: Melvin & Leigh Publishers, 2018. Administrative Theory & Praxis (Taylor & Francis Ltd), 41(4), 434–437. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2019.1643623