Acknowledgements and Feedback

This module acknowledges the Ontario Community of Literacy’s contribution to developing board governance training, resources, and exercises to strengthen their board governance practices. This is a self-study training model on effective board governance practices for Literacy and Basic Skills agencies and other non-profit Employment Ontario delivery agencies.

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This module was developed and sponsored by Community Literacy of Ontario, a network of over 100 community literacy agencies in Ontario. You can learn more about CLO via:

Research and Writing

Community Literacy of Ontario’s Building Organizational Capacity in Board Governance training module was written by Cindy Davidson in 2009. It was revised and updated by Joanne Kaattari and Vicki Trottier in 2013.

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This training module was funded by the Employment Ontario Network Development Fund.

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Date of Publication

CLO’s Board Governance module was originally written in 2009. It was revised and updated in November 2013.

This online training module was revised March 2018.

A Word of Appreciation

CLO is grateful for the role of the Advisory Committee for Building Organizational Capacity in Board Governance online training module: Debera Flynn, QUILL Learning Network; Fiona Murray, Institute on Governance; and Matt Wood, Ontario Association of Youth Employment Services.

We are also grateful to the Board of Directors of Community Literacy of Ontario for their ongoing support and encouragement and for sharing best practices in board development and governance.

Disclaimer

All external links within the Board Governance module were valid at the time of publication.

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