The New Board: Changing Issues, Roles and Relationships

by Schimmer; Mat Raymond

• ISBN13: 9780789008343
• ISBN10: 0789008343
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Meet the challenge of coordinating effective board-staff teamwork! Using specific real-life examples and informed recommendations for board management, The New Board: Changing Issues, Roles and Relationshipsexplains why and how to consider redesigning your board form and practice. The innovations suggested here, from minor adjustments to far-reaching reorganization, can help you find and keep board members, make board functioning more efficient, and help you comply with the new, stricter rules of managed care. The New Boardinforms the boards and staff of nonprofit residential service agencies about the nature of major contemporary challenges to board functioning. This innovative book offers an unusually diverse collection of contributors, including board members, executive staff, and academics. The resulting diversity of viewpoint produces a satisfying range of theoretical conversation and detailed description of actual practice. The New Boardexplores all the issues that affect boards in these days of rapid change: variations of board structures the pressures of managed care the increased complexity of service reduced board member availability the challenge of fund raising by modern boards contemporary considerations of legal liability of nonprofit boards The innovative ideas found in The New Boardwill help you and your nonprofit organization face the changes and challenges of the world of managed care. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in nonprofit organizations: CEOs and executive staff, academics and students in the field of nonprofit management, and board members themselves.

Author Biography

Nadia Ehrlich Finkelstein, MS, ACSW, is a Child and Family Services Management Specialist. Raymond Schimmer, MAT, is Executive Director of Parsons Child and Family Center in Albany, New York Sheldon R. Gelman, PhD, is Professor and Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University in New York Margaret Gibelman, DSW, is Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work of Yeshiva University in New York David Kirk, DMin, joined Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois five years ago as its President and Chief Executive Officer David S. Liederman, MEd, MSW, is President and CEO of the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, Inc. Judy T. Lindsey, MS, CFRE, is Vice President of Development for Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois Mildred B. Shapiro, MA, is a health economist and consultant in health and long term care. She is Adjunct Professor of health economics at Union College, Graduate Management Institute, and at the University at Albany School of Public Health Elizabeth Skidmore is Associate Director of the National Center for Consultation and Professional Development of the Child Welfare League of America L. D. Williams, MSW, ACSW, was President/CEO of Family and Children's Center, Inc., Mishawaka, Indiana

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xi
Foreword	xiii
Nadia Ehrlich Finkelstein
Raymond Schimmer
Preface: Today's Nonprofit Board-A National Perspective	xvii
David S. Liederman
Board Leadership 2000-Critical Roles for the New Century	1	(18)
Elizabeth Skidmore
Safeguarding the Nonprofit Agency: The Role of the Board of Directors in Risk Management	19	(20)
Margaret Gibelman
Sheldon R. Gelman
The Changing Role of Trustees in Fund Raising for Residential Treatment Centers	39	(12)
David Kirk
Judy T. Lindsey
Boards of Directors and Agencies Adapting to Managed Care	51	(12)
Mildred B. Shapiro
Alternative Board Structures to Accommodate New Demands	63	(14)
L. D. Williams
The Board Change Process: One Agency's Experience	77	(14)
Nadia Ehrlich Finkelstein
Raymond Schimmer
Index	91