Nonprofit Boards That Work addresses issues of role definition, key responsibilities, working culture, structure, and leadership that boards must tackle if they are to play a meaningful part in helping a nonprofit to achieve success. Here is practical advice and effective yet flexible strategies that accommodate the many variables that shape a boards real work?organizational size, stage of development, the varying levels of skill and commitment encompassed within the board, the talent of the executive director, the quality of leadership, and the limits of time. Throughout the book, boards are encouraged to shed irrelevant formulas and mobilize their goodwill and latent abilities to become boards that