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GENERAL
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RESOURCES

• Chief Executive Succession Planning: The Board's Role in Securing Your Organization's Future
  BoardSource, 2002
  This book explains how to devise an ongoing chief executive succession plan that is linked to an organization’s strategic planning, mission and vision.  Available for purchase.

• Connecting to Your Family's Foundation: A Primer for the Next Generation
  Association of Small Foundations
  This primer offers tips and strategies for the next generation to get involved in a family foundation’s succession planning process.  Available for purchase.

• Making Plans for Succession: What Founders Need to Know
  Association of Small Foundations
  This primer provides tips and strategies for a foundation founder to create a successful process for training and involving the next generation in the family foundation, and for preparing younger members for leadership.  Available for purchase.

• Nurturing the Next Generation
  The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 2003
  This article describes how some family foundations have devised ways to prepare heirs for board service.

• Successful Succession: Inspiring and Welcoming New Generations of Charitable Leaders
  National Center for Family Philanthropy, 2003
  This paper describes why, when, and how a family foundation's board can prepare the next generation for charitable, including 12 tips for successful succession.  Available for purchase.

Samples

• Associate Program Goals, Objectives and Programmatic Elements: Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation
  Council on Foundations, 2003

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