Board Recruitment and Development

ESCC Nominating Committee Handbook

ESCC Board Skill Evaluation Questionnaire

BoardSource provides templates, assessments, resources, research data, webinars to increase board effectiveness

How to recruit the nonprofit board you really need

Board Development Program (Alberta Culture and Tourism) provides workshops, resources, consultations and presentations

Building Breakthrough Boards (B3) Canada matches highly-skilled professionals with nonprofit boards and facilitates business-nonprofit collaboration through their Board Matching & Training Program. They work with boards to understand board director needs from a diversity and inclusion lens, so that boards can more effectively achieve their missions. The program is free for nonprofit organizations.

Use in-camera board meetings to strengthen organizational governance (podcast by Vantage Point. 2016)

Director and Officers Liability Insurance: A Necessary Cost? (podcast by Vantage Point 2016)

ESCC and Alberta Youth Volunteer presentation to Board Development Workshop 2008

CharityHowTo, Social Velocity, vantage point, Charity Village, Nonprofit Hub, Imagine Canada, and Campus for Communities of the Future and offer webinars, blogs and resources on board recruitment and development topics

Responsibility Overview: Board and Executive Director/Staff is a reference tool to distinguish different levels of responsibility for board and executive director/employees in fourteen key functions of your organization