Boards: Bar Fights, and Beautiful Music: [February 26, 2011]

“Boards: Bar Fights, and Beautiful Music:

how to avoid the one, and make lots of the other”

Capacity Partnership Group

Glen Peterson

Good Governance—
Leadership Excellence

A Workshop in #Policy Governance®

Saturday, February 26, 2011
9 AM – 2 PM; Lunch included
 Whittier Area Community Church
8100 Colima Road, Whittier, CA 90605

A workshop in board governance for nonprofit and community benefit organizations, we will examine the practical usage of Policy Governance, a comprehensive model of board governance. This is a new paradigm for governance and ensures organizational results and accountability that is safe and fair. We will look at the foundational work of the board—the work that no other group of volunteers can be expected to do. 

A board of directors needs to know its job and have the right tools. The job of governance is about values, vision, empowerment of both board and staff, and the strategic ability to lead leaders. This workshop looks at how a board of directors brings added value to a new organization. The workshop is designed as an introduction and to help everyone from beginners to veterans. It is for new board members and executives. 

As workshop participants, board members and staff leaders will gain an appreciation of leadership through governance; define the roles of management and board distinct from one another; identify the unique job outputs of the board; and learn how to avoid meddling and "rubber-stamping" by boards.

There is a nominal fee of $85 for the first person from an organization and $25 for additional persons from the same organization will be charged. Lunch and materials are included. All fees are due and payable in advance. 

Future Policy Governance workshops to be offered in 2011 include: Ends Policy Writing, Policy Writing Blitz, Monitoring, Connection to Ownership. 

For more information call Glen at 562/400-4739. 

Sign up here. 

More from Capacity Partnership Group here. 

Post Office Box 693

Whittier, CA 90608

gpeterson@capacitypartnership.com

562/400-4739 [mobile & voice mail or text]

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Theologically thinking about Immigration

What if there was a way to learn, rather than simply have an opinion. My friend Ian Danley from Phoenix suggests some theological lenses* through which to examine the issue of immigration that faces many of my own friends. His thoughtful and informed piece is in two parts on Shouts from the Wilderness: Part One and Part Two; and will be cross-posted on UnDocumented.tv.

Some of his points include:

• how scripture might orient us in a new way
• God engineers humanity to represent Him on earth, and he calls it very good
• stay closer to God’s heart for people
• Our Christian identity comes with a supreme citizenship in a different Kingdom
• Christ’s values and ethics are at odds with the world
• in an agrarian economy, women without men, children without parents and people without land and family are often vulnerable, God sets up rules to protect them
• we get to the life of Christ …he was an infant refugee carried across a border without knowing

I hope you read Ian's writing and find it helpful as you move toward a more informed and theologically informed opinion. Here is some source books to read to inform oneself to think, act, and even develop opinions christianly. 







I particularly appreciate the work of Danny Carrol Rodas as a theologian and churchman from Denver Seminary. His book Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible, is an invaluable resource to many. 

*So perhaps refraction is the way to inform our discussion.

Freedom from Fear Award Nominations

Do you know someone who has been courageous in the immigration reform movement?



Nominate them for an award here: Freedom from Fear Award

Speaking opportunities

I am calendering speaking and teaching events right now. I can speak to your church, community, civic, home group about immigration, immigration reform, the Bible, and more. Contact me through email. You can find my telephone number on this website: Capacity Partnership. Or email me here.

For more about me see About Glen Peterson.