{"id":20,"date":"2017-04-26T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/front-matter\/about-the-textbook\/"},"modified":"2019-03-25T19:26:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T19:26:47","slug":"about-the-textbook","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/front-matter\/about-the-textbook\/","title":{"raw":"About the Textbook","rendered":"About the Textbook"},"content":{"raw":"<p class=\"chapternum\">The purpose of this book is to help boards of directors of nonprofit organizations improve their performance after completing the Board Check-Up, online board performance self-assessment tool found at www.boardcheckup.com.<\/p>\r\nIt is important to understand, however, that this book can also be used as a stand-alone resource for any board seeking to assess its performance in that it contains the diagnostic questions on which the online self-assessment tool is based. It goes further by providing a framework for boards to use in discussing needed changes in board performance.\r\n\r\nIt also forms an integral part of a University at Albany, SUNY online course titled, <em>The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations<\/em>. This massive open online course (MOOC) can be taken for free or academic credit through Coursera\u2019s online teaching and learning platform.\r\n\r\nFor more information about this book, the Board Check-Up, and the nonprofit governance MOOC, please contact Prof. Yvonne Harrison at yharrison@albany.edu.","rendered":"<p class=\"chapternum\">The purpose of this book is to help boards of directors of nonprofit organizations improve their performance after completing the Board Check-Up, online board performance self-assessment tool found at www.boardcheckup.com.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to understand, however, that this book can also be used as a stand-alone resource for any board seeking to assess its performance in that it contains the diagnostic questions on which the online self-assessment tool is based. It goes further by providing a framework for boards to use in discussing needed changes in board performance.<\/p>\n<p>It also forms an integral part of a University at Albany, SUNY online course titled, <em>The Governance of Nonprofit Organizations<\/em>. This massive open online course (MOOC) can be taken for free or academic credit through Coursera\u2019s online teaching and learning platform.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about this book, the Board Check-Up, and the nonprofit governance MOOC, please contact Prof. Yvonne Harrison at yharrison@albany.edu.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-20\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Vic Murray and Yvonne Harrison. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Open SUNY Textbooks. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/textbooks.opensuny.org\/guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/\">https:\/\/textbooks.opensuny.org\/guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":311,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Guidelines for Improving the Effectiveness of Boards of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations\",\"author\":\"Vic Murray and Yvonne Harrison\",\"organization\":\"Open SUNY Textbooks\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/textbooks.opensuny.org\/guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[2],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-20","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20\/revisions\/68"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/20\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-guidelines-for-improving-the-effectiveness-of-boards-of-directors-of-nonprofit-organizations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}