Avoiding NFP Board Governance Failures with GovernApp
A 2025 episode of The Board Whisperer by the highly respected Board authority Kerryn Newton highlights five proactive strategies to prevent the most common types of governance failures. These are:
- Role clarity for the board, including a charter and position descriptions for Board members;
- A current delegations structure covering financial and non-financial authorities;
- Communications protocols for open and timely Board-management and intra-Board engagement;
- Having a plan and performance framework for executing on the purpose of the organisation; and
- Defining and establishing a culture that enables the organisation and is well embedded.
We couldn't agree more. Which is why GovernApp assesses how well your NFP Board is doing in each of these strategies and, where there are gaps, provides risk-prioritised actions and template artefacts to help you quickly make necessary improvements. Need Board position descriptions? Done. Board Charter? Delivered. A comprehensive delegations model? Yours. CEO accountability framework? Provided. Help with culture definition and socialising? Advice-to-go.
GovernApp lifts the burden of NFP governance. We’re here to help. Try GovernApp for free at governapp.com