NPDCSNJ Training Series: Board Governance for Nonprofit Organizations

Description

Overview: 

This course discusses what every NPO board member needs to know. Course Content: The course discusses how boards should (and actually) work, responsibilities of board membership, and legal expectations deriving from board members’ fiduciary responsibilities. 

Topics include:

• Recruiting and election
• Expectations (i.e., “Give, Get, or Get Off”)
• Tools for evaluating board performance
• Succession planning and term limits
• Insurance requirements for NPOs, Directors, Errors and Omissions, and General Liability

For a variety of reasons, very few non-profits consider what would happen if a key staff member, board member or volunteer should get sick, no longer be available or decide to leave. This course explores the key activities needed to assure the sustainability of a non- profit when it loses key personnel. The course also presents an overview of what board members need to understand concerning workplace laws and creating a positive work environment. This introduction to the role of HR in non profit management includes:

• Understanding workplace laws and legal relationships, including creation of an Employee Handbook
• Utilizing a step-by-step process for addressing performance problems and making best hiring decisions
• FMLA
• ADA
• DEIB in hiring
• “Firing without fear"
• At-will employment
• Medical marijuana

Presenters: Past and present members of the Board of the Non Profit Development Center of Southern New Jersey