by Grant Lavac on January 18, 2012
The Government is seeking the views of not-for-profit organisations and other stakeholders on appropriate governance arrangements for the future of the sector.
The Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten has released a consultation paper, Review of Not-for-profit Governance Arrangements, which seeks views from the not-for-profit (NFP) sector on what the core governance principles that apply to all NFP organisations should be and how a single governance system could best serve NFPs’ needs.
The outcomes of the governance review will help form the governance requirements for registered entities in the Australian Charities and NFPs Commission legislation.
The paper builds on work previously completed in the Final Report on the Scoping Study for a National Not-for-profit Regulator, which discussed streamlining the governance arrangements in the NFP sector.
To make a submission or for more information visit: http://www.treasury.gov.au/contentitem.asp?NavId=037&ContentID=2252
Submissions on the consultation paper are due by 20 January 2012.
Source: Third Sector
by Grant Lavac on January 18, 2012
If you gave your board members iPads to use during your board meetings, what do you think would happen?
Would they wake up? Walk out? Or be wowed?
Steven Bowman, of Conscious Governance, and Dottie Schindlinger, of BoardEffect explore the possibilities of nonprofit boards and the use of iPads in their white paper, iPad Use on the Rise in Nonprofit Boardrooms.
Board meetings have not changed that much since the rise of the modern American corporation in the late 19th century. And nonprofit boards have been built right on top of that corporate model.
But there’s been a trend in recent years toward e-governance, which uses web-based portals to make it easier to deliver information to board members prior to meetings and in-between.
Bowman and Schindlinger say that the latest statistics from KPMG, a consulting firm, last year suggest that about half of organisations are now using a web-based portal and another 30% plan to do so within the year. There are a number of board portal vendors that are releasing iPad apps, and there is a corresponding uptick in the number of nonprofits that are considering the use of iPads in meetings.
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Source: About.com Guide
