RESOURCES TO HELP WITH ORIENTATION OF NEW BOARD MEMBERS AND VOLUNTEERS
Available through the CSAE Bookstore (www.csae.com)
By Sandi L. Humphrey, CAE
PUBLICATION
Making Your Mark as a Not-for-Profit Board
Member, 2013.
Sandi L. Humphrey, CAE
Guide to Effective Committees for Directors of
Not-for-Profit Organizations (2nd Edition), 2013.
Sandi L. Humphrey, CAE and Signe Holstein, CAE
Best Practices and Tools for Not-for-Profit Boards
(2nd Edition), 2013.
James B. Pealow, CAE and Sandi L. Humphrey, CAE
The Complementary Model of Board Governance,
2012.
Tom Abbott
Guide to Positive Staff-Board Relations for
Directors of Not-for-Profit Organizations (3rd
Edition), 2012.
Sandi L. Humphrey, CAE and Donald G. Evans
COMMENTS
An orientation guide for new members of not-forprofit boards with paid staff. Makes the Board’s
job clear, sets out what Board members need to
know, and how they should (and should not) act.
This publication was designed to be part of an
orientation guide for new board members.
Sets out guidelines for orientation for committees
and proposed contents for committee member
reference manual.
Identifies best practices in Board orientation and
contains tools such as: director’s guide essentials,
elements of a volunteer management program,
and board member competencies.
Contains a chapter dealing specifically with the
Director’s Manual and the staff manual, and sets
out the distinction between the two.
Contains a section on Board orientation,
recommends that orientation be a condition of
attaining office, and recommends that the Chair of
the Board lead the in-person orientation session.