At 10:39 AM 10/10/2003 -0400, Marilynn Havelka wrote:
>yes conflict of interest, ethics, board list and phone numbers, museum
>standards/regulations etc.
Besides the helpful museum-specific items that have already been mentioned,
don't forget to orient your trustees to their duties as fiduciaries
(including fundraising!)
A good resource to get some canned material is BoardSource at
http://www.boardsource.org/
and in particular
http://www.boardsource.org/QnA.asp?Class=BoardEssential
including
http://www.boardsource.org/FullAnswer.asp?ID=98
which tells what should be in a board manual!
Susan Ruderman
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