Diversity perspectives and minority nonprofit board member inclusion

The new work of the nonprofit board.

Too often, the board of a nonprofit organization is little more than a collection of high-powered people engaged in low-level activities. But that can change, the authors say, if trustees are willing to discover and take on the new work of the board. When they perform the new work, a board's members can significantly advance the institution's mission and long-term welfare. Doing the new work re...

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After receiving a doctorate in Biochemistry at the University of Köln, Germany, in 1995, Dr. Boison continued his scientific career at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zürich and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland, where he began to focus on therapeutic epilepsy research and received a Habilitation in Cellular Pharmacology. In 2005 he moved to the Legac...

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Professor Geoffrey Burnstock is a neuroscientist and he received his PhD Degree from University College London. He is President of the Autonomic Neuroscience Centre, University College Medical School. His work has been recognised by various honours, such as ‘Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digestive Sciences’ a 2000 Janssen Award in Gastroenterology’, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of P...

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Roland Brandt studied Biochemistry and Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and the Free University of Berlin in Germany. He performed his doctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin, after which he continued as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Neurologic Diseases (CND), Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA). By returning to Germany, he became an i...

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