Hands On Network (formerly CityCares) is the parent of some 44 community-based "Hands On" groups across the US and in a growing number of other countries.

This year, the Hands On Network leveraged the talents of over 350,000 volunteers working on hundreds of individual projects. A President's Council chaired by Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli has committed to increasing the number of active volunteers to at least 600,000 by the end of 2006 while increasing significantly the number of corporate-sponsored volunteer programs.

Clearly, the network is meeting its goal of "transforming people and communities through volunteer services and civic engagement."

To support these ambitions, the Network's governing board seeks 3-4 new board members who combine entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated commitment to volunteerism with senior management experience in an organization of substantial scope and scale. BoardWalk Consulting has been retained to assist the organization in its board development.

To learn more about board opportunities at Hands On Network, please click here.

To learn more about the work of the Network and its affiliates, please click here.

"Has Your Organization Outgrown Its Board?"

This is the question posed by BoardWalk's Sam Pettway in the next issue of BoardMember, BoardSource's monthly governance publication. "The really tough issues in board governance are not the ones involving the mystical Messrs. Sarbanes, Oxley or Spitzer," says Pettway, "nor even the tax gurus in the US Senate or at the IRS. Rather, the really tough issues in board governance are the ones involving the people you know best-your own board members.

"Stagnation, bloat, frustration, micromanagement, spotty giving, or falling meeting attendance--all may be signs of a board that has outlived its relevance." If your board has ever exhibited any of these symptoms, you will want to download the preview article below.

For a preview copy of "Has Your Organization Outgrown Its Board?," please click here.

[Sarbanes-Oxley does have serious implications for nonprofit governance. Last year BoardSource and Independent Sector published an overview of those implications. For your copy of the relevant summary, please click here.]

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