Date of Award
1990
Document Type
Practicum
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Center for the Advancement of Education
Keywords
adoption, adoptive parents, agency services, board development, board of directors, board president, chairpersons, child abuse, committee development, committee members, committee organization, committee utilization, executive director, governing boards, long-range planning, management failure, meeting minutes, needs assessment, nonprofit agency, organizational change, organizational development, organizational failure, orientation, parent training, placement, preparation for adoption, program development, recruitment, referral agencies, referral sources, report approval procedures, residential group care facility, selection, specialized adoption agency, standing committees, state licensing consultants, survey committee, youth, sexually abused children
Abstract
An effective board of directors is crucial to a nonprofit agency. The effectiveness of the board of directors depends on its organization and its ability to use its resources. Standing committees are the major resource available to boards of directors. However, ineffective development and utilization of standing communities can result in a number of problems.
The author examines the problems that a nonprofit agency encounters when expanding committees were not organized and utilized correctly. A step-by-step procedure was designed and implemented to develop and maintain a variety of standing committees. The procedures consisted of seven steps: defining the problem and gaining support for its implementation from the board president, selecting committee chairpersons and support for additional members of the board of directors selecting committee members, developing procedures for recording and distributing meeting minutes, developing procedures for approval of reports, and providing orientation to committee members. Each step provides detailed strategies for the development and utilization of standing committees.
The procedures were implemented and received unanimous support by the Board of Directors, by Standing Committees, with above, and they're currently utilizing the guidelines offered by the author, dependencies, and groups, samples, survey committee, and others.