Board Policies

Contents

  1. 1 Board Policy Manuals
  2. 2 Board Attendance
  3. 3 Conflict of Interest

 

 

Board's guidelines for how members will work together

Board policies are guidelines for how the Board members can best work together, e.g., when they want to meet, how members should be on Committees, how they recruit and orient new members, how they manage for consistent meeting attendance, how the Board will work with the chief executive officer, how they will avoid conflict-of-interest, etc.
 
 
 
 

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Board Policy Manuals

 

Typical Contents of Nonprofit Board Member's Manual  PDF

 
 
 

Board Attendance

 
 

Conflict of Interest

 

  
  
  
 
 

NOTE: Many experts believe that the conflict-of-interest terms should be in the bylaws, rather than Board policies. Often, state statute (which takes precedence over bylaws) specifies terms to avoid conflict of interest.


Subpages (2): Confidentiality Rules Personnel Policies