Called to Serve by Max De Pree

Called to Serve by Max De Pree

Called to Serve is for people with questions about creating and maintaining a successful nonprofit board. How can the board of a nonprofit organization work best? Now that I'm on such a board, what should I do? How can we find the best trustees? How should I think about my work for nonprofits? What kind of relationship between a board and the staff will work best? How can we organize and develop the service of busy, committed people?
Internationally renowned CEO and best-selling author Max De Pree packs his many years of experience on nonprofit boards into these short letters directed to busy folks active in nonprofit life. Brief, clear, and -- above all -- useful, Called to Serve notes the marks of an effective board, lays out the proper work of boards, gives choices for structuring a nonprofit board, and covers the roles and relationships of board chairpersons, trustees, and presidents.
Today there are more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations in America, with 109 million people working in this important sector of society. In spite of this surprising fact, very little training exists for this kind of service. Called to Serve is valuable not only because it fills this need but also because it comes from the pen of one of America's most experienced and respected business leaders.

MAX DE PREE has forty years of corporate experience, nearly as many in the nonprofit sector, and nineteen years as a grandfather. De Pree is the chairman emeritus of Herman Miller, Inc., a member of Fortune magazine's National Business Hall of Fame, and the Business Enterprise Trust's Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Fuller Theological Seminary, Hope College, and Words of Hope have all had him on their boards. De Pree is also a member of the Peter F. Drucker Institute's advisory council. The Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management is a non-profit management organization founded by Peter F. Drucker His service to a multitude of communities has given him hope.

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ISBN 13	9780802849229
ISBN 10	0802849229
Title	Called to Serve
Author	Max De Pree
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Year published	2001-06-01
Number of pages	362
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