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Board Evaluation
Assess how well your board governs and commit to getting better.
What you’ll learn
- Explain why a board must assess itself when no one else does
- Run a candid board self-assessment using a structured process and tool
- Evaluate individual members, the board chair, and the executive director
- Turn assessment findings into a board development plan that drives change
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Why a board must assess itself
Every part of a healthy nonprofit gets evaluated.
5 min Quiz Interactive - 2
The self-assessment process & tools
A board self-assessment is not a hallway conversation or a quick show of hands.
6 min Quiz Interactive - 3
Evaluating yourself and the chair
A board is only as strong as its members.
5 min Quiz Interactive - 4
The board’s job: evaluating the ED
The executive director (or CEO) is the only employee the board directly supervises.
6 min Quiz Interactive - 5
From findings to a development plan
An assessment that ends in a tidy report changes nothing.
5 min Quiz - 6
The governance committee’s role
Someone has to own the cycle of assessment, education, and recruitment — or it never happens.
4 min Quiz Interactive - 7
Common board dysfunctions
Assessment is most valuable when it catches the patterns that quietly hollow out a board.
4 min Quiz Interactive
Sources & further reading
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