Articles about policy based governance

Articles

Many of the articles listed below are in Acrobat, and require the (free) Acrobat reader. It is available from www.Adobe.com.

Basic Principles of Policy Governance Media:principles_of_pg.pdf ® A summary article by Rev. Margaret Keip

Basic Resources List Media:basic_resources.pdf updated Oct '06

Policy Governance and Unitarian Universalist Congregational Polity Media:Kaminetzky.pdf by Eric Kaminetzky April 2006

Indicators of congregaton readiness for Policy Governance Media:indicators_pg.pdf by Rev. Margaret Keip updated Oct '06

Power paradigm shift to PG Media:shifing_paradigms.pdf by Rev. Margaret Keip updated Oct '06

10 Policy Governance Rules Media:10 PG RULES.pdf John Carver's ten rules that limit what is actually Policy Governance® (Acrobat .pdf file)

Policy Governance Schematic Media:PG schematic.PDF

General Assembly 2004 notes Media:GA 04 workshop notes.pdf Notes from the workshop Policy Governance for Congregations taken by Gary Lerude (Acrobat .pdf file)

The Policy Governance Model: A critical examination Media:Hough 'A Critical Evaluation'.pdf A new paper by Alan Hough. Permission to copy this paper has been granted by the Queensland University of Technology Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies. (Acrobat .pdf file)

Policy Governance: ‘Yes, but does it work’? Media:Hough ‘Yes, but does it work’.pdf A paper by Alan Hough. Permission to copy this paper has been granted by Company Secretaries Australia. (Acrobat .pdf file)

What is Policy Governance? Media:What is Policy Governance.pdf A newsletter article from First Unitarian Church, Oakland, CA

Policy Governance in Small Sizes Media:pg_small_sizes.pdf by Rev. Margaret Keip (Acrobat .pdf file)

Board Agenda Media:board_agenda_sample.pdf example by Rev. Margaret Keip (Acrobat .pdf file)

Basic Governance Policies: a sample set from All Souls of Deluge Falls Media:basic_governance_policies.pdf (Acrobat .pdf file) revised June 2005

Redesign of a board’s job Media:redesign_of_board.pdf by Debbie Sheets and Ellen Green for Unity Church-Unitarian (Acrobat .pdf file)

Value of the PG Model Media:value_of_model.pdf by Debbie Sheets and Ellen Green for Unity Church-Unitarian (Acrobat .pdf file)

Principles of PG Media:principles_of_pg.pdf adapted and abridged by Ellen Green and Debbie Sheets (Acrobat .pdf file)

Nested Set Principle (graphic) Media:nested_set_principle.pdf (Acrobat .pdf file 96 kb)

Second-level Policy sample Media:second-level policy.pdf (Acrobat .pdf file)