Is your board somewhat odd?

To what degree is making decisions a central part of your board’s reason for being? If it judges itself on the wisdom of its decisions, then it may be interested in new empirical research that tells us that boards with an odd number of members may make better decisions. The U.S. based Philanthropy Journal  recently reported details of the study, one that reveals directors’ preferences for conformity or difference. It caught my attention!

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Conduct becoming

A group of students at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, one of Canada’s premier small post-secondary institutions, started a music project in 2001 they called “Conduct Becoming” to raise money for cancer research. The students decided their project should recognize exemplary behaviour, not the opposite, with which they were so often labelled .

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Jigs, reels and non-profits

Here there is more to Scotland than a curiosity about “hairy coos” and ancient castles. Now some senior Nova Scotia government officials are all abuzz about importing social enterprise ideas from across the sea where they feel this idea has taken root more so than here.

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Flower Cart Blooms

Most non-profit organizations are serious about the services they provide. Some are also enthusiastic about how well they govern themselves. Nowhere is this more case than with the Flower Cart, a curiously named, but very successful agency in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.

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