The difference between your success and failure as a trustee and perhaps that of the organization you care for could rest within the pages of this easy-to-read book. -- Bruce and Jolene McCaw, McCaw Family Foundation This book provides more useful wisdom and insight with less jargon and fluff than any other of its kind. -- Dr. Charles Maccormack, Save the Children Hurrah! At last a clear, accessible layperson's guide to nonprofit board membership. It's a gem. -- Marjorie J. Sharp, Toronto Community Foundation

Nonprofit activities are the next - and possibly the most interesting - focus of the Baby Boomer Era. The United States has an estimated two million charitable organizations and this handbook is for current and future board members or trustees. Easy to read, written with a brief, sharp directness, and laced with real-life examples and illustrations, Inside the Nonprofit Boardroom fills a growing need in an entertaining format to help trustees be effective.

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This gem of a manual is a fun, quick read at just over 100 pages. . . . [It] should be assigned reading for most Grange officers and for those serving on the board of any other nonprofit organization. Its modest cost ($15.95) erases all excuses for board members not knowing what they are doing!