Improper Motions When a motion is made, the chair must listen very carefully to the words and determine whether the motion is in order. This process seems very complicated – how can anyone keep track of all those picky rules? But careful listening and following the...
The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA) Some University of Virginia faculty members are calling foul after the Board of Visitors extended the term of the faculty representative without consulting professors. In June, the school’s governing board extended 2017-2018...
Non-Profit Quarterly By Chris Cornforth, John Paul Hayes and Siv Vangen Given the complexity of many social, environmental, and economic problems facing communities, nonprofit organizations are increasingly collaborating with public authorities. But the power dynamics...
Bayou Brief (New Orleans, Louisiana) By Sue Lincoln “Mr. Attorney General, you can’t rewrite parliamentary procedure!” – Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne Lately, it appears that state politics is a live-action version of the old Warner Brothers cartoons we...
The Non-Profit Times Four of five nonprofits struggle with leadership and management issues and only 11 percent are prepared to scale for optimal impact, according to a new survey of more than 3,000 executives, staff, board members and donors. “The Stanford Survey on...
