Characteristics of an Effective Board Leader, Plus More: Monday’s Roundup
October 26, 2009, 12:11 pm
By Maria Di Mento
- Board leaders need to effectively communicate a group’s mission to the public, work well with a chief executive, and be a major financial supporter, writes Alice Korngold, a charity consultant in New York, on a Fast Company magazine blog.
- The word donor is used to describe anyone who supports a charity, but the title should be reserved for contributors who give at least 10 percent of their household income to charity and meet other criteria, writes Greg Fox on the Donor Power blog, which is operated by Merkle, a fund-raising company.
- The traditional model of conferences — keynote speeches, plenaries, networking breaks — is dead, writes Nathaniel Whittemore on Change.org’s social entrepreneurship blog. Mr. Whittemore, director of the Center for Global Engagement at Northwestern University, predicts that conferences will become less hierarchical, and he cites the Pop!Tech conference, an event on social innovation, and Opportunity Collaboration, an anti-poverty conference, as examples.
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