PART I Governance of Nonprofit Organizations
Governance is an umbrella term that includes the ultimate authority, accountability, and responsibility for an organization. Nonprofit organizations are governed through complex sets of functional roles and procedures that are defined in laws and tax codes, influenced by numerous external constituencies, and shaped to fit their own missions, structures, activities, personalities, policies, and procedures.1 The governance of a nonprofit organization is a product of its purposes, people, resources, contracts, clients, boundaries, community coalitions and networks, and actions as prescribed (or prohibited) in its articles of incorporation and bylaws, state laws and codes, ...
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