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Synopsis Governance is the overall process and structure used to direct and manage an organization’s operation and activities. As organizations grow from a group of people with shared ideas to a team with a staff and formalization, the need for good governance becomes prominent. There are several benefits to structured governance. It ensures greater opportunity to increase efficiency. It enhances the ability of an organization to be more responsive to beneficiaries’ needs as well as to environmental change. However, NPOs need to face many a challenge before they can successfully adopt the concept of structured governance. First, the impact and interplay of the environmental factors are so high that many nonprofits end up toeing the line defined by the Government, partners or funders. At other times the scale of operation is so small that structured governance seems a distant possibility. Yet other times the individual behind the idea emerges to become larger than the idea itself, thus, value-based organization gets stunted to become a person-centric organization. This book will look at various governance models that have been conceptualized and practised by NPOs the world over. It would explore strategies and practices which will make the performance of these elements of governance more efficient and, effective and in turn, contribute to the effectiveness of the organization as a whole.