Welcome to the Developing Your Board (DYB) wiki
If you’d like to know more about the project or you’d like to complete the board evaluation, please email acpns@qut.edu.au
The Developing Your Board Project
What is the DYB project? How can DYB help your board or management committee? And how you can get involved.
Major Actors of the Board and Management
Each of the major roles with responsibility for governance of your organisation ---
The chair, treasurer, secretary, directors or committee members, and the chief executive or top manager.
The Board and Governance Matters
A governance framework based on a teamwork model of how boards and management committees perform their functions. Important principles of governance as well as nuts and bolts procedural aspects.
Board evaluation
Part of a board's learning and development process and essential for achieving sustainability. Find out about diagnostic tools and how DYB can help with this important process.
The DYB board evaluation surveys – Whole of Board Evaluation and Chair/President Evaluation – are available for your board evaluation now!
Just email acpns@qut.edu.au to get started on your DYB board evaluation.
Read our article published in the peer-reviewed journal, Nonprofit Management and Leadership which reports on preliminary results from pilot testing of the DYB Whole of Board evaluation.
Gavin Nicholson, Cameron Newton, & Myles McGregor-Lowndes, (2012) 'The nonprofit board as a team : pilot results and initial insights', Nonprofit Management and Leadership, vol 22 no. 4, pp. 383-528
Available via QUT e-prints http://eprints.qut.edu.au/48391
These are all external to CPNS
Australian Institute of Company Directors Not-for-profit governance webpage
- NDS NSW Good Governance program
- Our Community
- Community Door, Governance and Accountability resources
- PilchConnect
- Volunteering Australia
- Volunteering Queensland
- National Centre for Voluntary Organisations (UK)
- BoardSource (US)
- Resource Center for Good Governance – Independent Sector (US)
- More Useful links on nonprofit governance