[Wikimedia-l] Proposal - Training for Wikimedia movement boards

[David Gerard]

On 13 August 2013 15:39, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> True. Even worse, many do not even try to be board members (or active
> chapter members, for that matter) because they (think they) don't have
> enough experience. It's crucial to ensure the availability of growing paths
> (usually informal) for volunteers or you lose them and they lose
> opportunities.
> For me, it's been crucial to be told by a prof. "you can learn the job of a
> [university] board member in 6 months" (so it's inexcusable if you don't,
> but you must try). He was right.


A very useful book: Nonprofit Kit For Dummies by Stan Hutton and
Frances Phillips. I so wish I'd read it 25 years before I did. Very
US-centric, but informative outside that.


- d.