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    Getting on Board free guides

    A set of free practical guides for UK charities on trustee recruitment and board diversity. How to Diversify Your Board gives advice, case studies and templates for recruitment and onboarding. How to Recruit Trustees for Your Charity draws on 30 charities and includes skills audit and advert templates and an 8-step recruitment process. From Here to Diversity, from Action for Trustee Racial Diversity, covers recruiting Black and Asian trustees.

    Start hereCurrentKey manual or guideFree
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    Board Appointment Guide for Charities

    A guide for charity boards in Singapore on composing, renewing and recruiting a board. It has 5 sections: the role of the board, 10 steps to compose the board, how to nominate and appoint new members, board culture and relationships with the chair and executive head, and how to attract new members. Appendices give sample terms of reference, a term-limits example and a diversity matrix for mapping skills and gaps.

    CurrentKey manual or guideFree
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    Awareness to Action

    A BoardSource guide for boards and chief executives working on racial equity together. It offers 3 starting points to assess where a board stands now, each paired with action steps to move it forward. It notes that the work is nonlinear and needs sustained commitment. It also covers why the guide was written and policies and practices to avoid the glass cliff for new leaders of colour.

    EmergingKey manual or guideFree
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    Bridgespan Organizational Effectiveness Framework survey

    An online team survey on Org360 that runs a Bridgespan-based organisational assessment for nonprofits. It has 85 questions and takes about 34 minutes. Areas include strategic clarity, governance, financial sustainability, and diversity, equity and inclusion, with rating questions and open reflection questions. Leaders, board members and staff respond, and Org360 produces an automatic report with strengths, gaps and a development plan. It is free to use after sign-up.

    Start hereEmergingTool or templateFree with sign-upNonprofit Builder tool

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