Board Evaluation:

Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers

Self-Assessment for Foundation Boards
BoardSource
An online tool to help foundation boards determine how well they are carrying out their responsibilities and identifies areas that need improvement.  Available for purchase.
www.boardsource.org/Bookstore.asp

Measuring Board Effectiveness
BoardSource
This booklet includes a full board self-evaluation questionnaire based on six characteristics of effective boards.  Available for purchase.
www.boardsource.org/Bookstore.asp

Board of Directors Scorecard
Growth Strategies, Inc.
A suggested checklist to assess and improve the operations and effectiveness of boards of directors.
www.growth-strategies.com/subpages/articles/025.html

Trustees of a Minnesota Foundation Find an Innovative Way to Evaluate Their Own Performance
Chronicle of Philanthropy
This article describes how the Blandin Foundation created a peer-review process, which forced its members to evaluate one another’s performance and determine who among them should be asked to continue serving, and how it pledged to undertake a formal effort to assess its overall performance every four years.
www.philanthropy.com/jobs/2004/07/28/20040805-690712.htm

Sample Board of Directors Self-Evaluation (PDF)
Council on Foundations
www.cof.org/files/Documents/Documents_Bank/Governance/BOD_Roles_Responsibilities/BODselfeval.pdf

Megan Wentworth