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Policy Governance practice for nonprofit boards and professional associations, from Sherry Jennings.

For boards and practitioners who know the model

The Worth Question

Ends ask what results, for whom, and at what worth. The third one is where most boards go quiet — so it gets dropped, and the budget answers it instead. Includes a working model of what happens to a board's priorities when resources fall and nobody has stated what anything is worth.

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The Invisible Price Tag

Boards do ask whether things are worth doing. They ask in the present tense — at the one moment when every piece of evidence that would say no hasn't arrived yet. On short-term judgment, long-term consequence, and the difference between keeping an organization alive and keeping it able.

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