Hallmark #12: Looks at Risk from Everyone’s Perspective

Tools

For an informative article from the Chronicle of Philanthropy on the benefits and challenges of developing a diverse board of directors, click here.

For a sample board self-evaluation checklist, click here.

For a sample board self-assessment survey, click here.

The Corporate Fund Nonprofit Board Self Assessment toolkit is free. It contains background about the benefits of the board self-evaluation process and very explicit instructions, as well as sample questionnaires. To download the PDF, click here.

Below are resources on diversity and inclusion:

• DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP FORUM—The Diversity Leadership Forum is a national non-profit professional association, providing the arena for a multidisciplinary collaboration of diversity practitioners to shape the development of the Diversity field.
• DIVERSITYINC.COM—the Web's largest and most in-depth corporate diversity archive. More than 4,000 articles
• DIVERSITYWEB—an interactive resource hub for higher education.
• DIALOGUE ON DIVERSITY—an official NGO recognized by the United Nations, the Dialogue offers conferences, seminars, internships, and annual leadership award recognition as part of its larger program of entrepreneurship training and international exchange.
• CORNUCOPIA OF DISABILITY INFORMATION—CODI serves as a community resource for consumers and professionals by providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. It consists of both an Internet Directory of Disability Information and a repository of electronic disability documents, dating back to the early 1990s. Many of the documents on CODI are publicly available nowhere else on the Internet. The information addresses local (Buffalo & WNY), state, national and international audiences.
• FAMILIES AND WORK INSTITUTE ((FWII))—Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a non-profit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workplace, changing family and changing community.