Andy Levy-AjzenkopfMay 8, 2006
By Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf
Effective board governance in the voluntary sector continues to be a hot topic across the country. Many organizations and foundations struggle mightily with governance issues, decisions, and best practices. Thankfully, that struggle may soon become more manageable. On April 26th, 2006, in what many are calling a watershed moment for the nonprofit sector, the First National Study of Board Practices in the Non-Profit and Voluntary Sector was unveiled.
The survey, a joint project between the Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development (CVSRD) and Strategic Leverage Partners (SLP), was conducted via e-mail throughout 2005. Authored by Sue Dallhoff, president of SLP, Grace Bugg, SLP's COO, and Paula Speevak-Sladowski, managing director of the CVSRD, the report collects a wealth of responses from the online survey as well as information gathered through key informant interviews from various governance experts. The authors introduce the reasoning for the survey as follows: '[The] goal was to produce a study that would represent a unique database of Canadian non-profit board governance practices that could be shared by non-profit and voluntary organizations across sub-sectors throughout the country.' It does that and hopefully much more."
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