BoardSource (formerly The National Central for Nonprofit Boards) sets the gold standard for non-profit organizations with its diverse, expensive, and high-quality publications. BoardSource has figured out how to create a teaching and reference work simultaneously and then impress this model across the range of its printed material. The present book(let) comes with a CD that provides serviceable boilerplate that organizations can use to produce their own conflict of interest policies and disclosure documents.
The tone of Managing Conflicts is eminently reasonable. It assumes that conflicts of interest will always exist, that many of them are not bad, but that some of them are. The latter can sink your non-profit ship in the time it takes to say `But I didn’t realize …’ The book provides brief case studies that illustrate the good, the bad, and the very, very ugly among common conflicts of interest.
The take-away beauty here: You can read through this book in twenty minutes and then consult it as needed.
`You get what you pay for’, the adage reminds us. When you buy Managing Conflicts of Interest, you pay and get a lot.
Canter Bridge 
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