Build a Board Worthy of the Mission It Serves Effective nonprofit governance requires more than approving budgets, attending meetings, and maintaining committees. It requires judgment, accountability, financial understanding, healthy board-executive relationships, and the ability to lead through complexity, conflict, risk, and change. Effective Nonprofit Board Governance: Roles, Responsibilities, and Best Practices for Committees and Directors is a practical guide for board members, nonprofit executives, and governance leaders who want to build boards that do more than satisfy formal requirements. This substantially expanded second edition examines how governance actually works when mission, money, people, power, strategy, and risk collide. Drawing on more than two decades of nonprofit leadership and organizational experience, Matthew B. Scraper offers a clear and pragmatic approach to board governance rooted in both fiduciary responsibility and real-world practice. Rather than treating governance as a collection of rules, this book presents it as an operating system for institutional trust. Inside, readers will find guidance on board and CEO roles, committee design, financial sustainability, risk oversight, board recruitment and succession, organizational health, conflict and dysfunction, technology and AI governance, accessibility and representation, leadership transition, and more. The book also includes practical calendars, dashboards, meeting tools, evaluation frameworks, succession resources, model committee charters, and governance-policy templates that organizations can adapt to their own needs. Whether you are strengthening an established board, rebuilding a struggling one, preparing for leadership transition, or simply trying to govern more effectively, this book provides the structure and judgment needed to help boards lead with clarity, restraint, accountability, and purpose.