This guide will help your Board to be highly effectively in all of the most important aspects of governance, including: strategic planning, programs, marketing, staffing, finances, fundraising, evaluations, transparency, sustainability and lobbying. It includes guidelines to detect and fix broken Boards; select the best Board model for the nonprofit to implement; define how much the Board members should be involved in management, depending on the Board model; decide whether to use committees or not, and if so, which ones; establish specific, appropriate goals for Board committees; conduct comprehensive succession planning of the CEO position; ensure legal compliance to the Sarbanes-Oxley act; and ensure highly ethical behavior of Board members. Comprehensive guidelines and materials are written in an easy-to-implement style, resulting in a highly practical resource that can be referenced at any time during the life of a Board and organization.