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ACCESS Community Capital Fund awarded Aprio Good Governance for All Award for 2019

VANCOUVER – September 26, 2019 – Aprio Inc., Canada’s most trusted provider of board portal software, announced today that ACCESS Community Capital Fund, a microfinance lender that facilitates small loans to help individuals and new Canadians start businesses, has been awarded the Aprio Good Governance for All Award for 2019. The Aprio Good Governance for All Award recognizes a deserving not-for-profit with board portal software to help the organization better engage their
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Ian Warner
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Board Best Practices

Run better, more productive board meetings with a board portal

Even though the board meeting has come to an end, your directors linger in the room, enthusiastically discussing how to best tackle the latest challenges. Sound familiar? If not, read on. We all know the feeling of accomplishment that comes from a productive board meeting. Directors feel valued and engaged, and board leaders feel that the time spent organizing the meeting was well spent. But effective board meetings don’t just feel inspiring,
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Dee Sicklesteel
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Board Portal Evaluation

Are paper and free file sharing systems failing your board? 6 reasons to adopt a board portal

How are you managing your board meeting communication and director updates? Do you often field questions like: “Where is the meeting agenda again?” or “How do I get to our committee notes?” These questions can seem trivial, but they are an indicator of director frustration with board communication, and having to constantly answer them consumes valuable staff time. What’s more, exit interview research shows that board information that is hard to access,
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Dee Sicklesteel
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Product Updates and Tips

3 simple steps to improve board meeting efficiency: discussions in Aprio

Does your board struggle to keep meetings efficient? Do you always seem to be rehashing old discussions to ensure that all board members are on the same page? You’re not alone – it’s a common struggle. The most productive and satisfying board meetings are used for discussing issues, seeking meaningful board input and making strategic decisions, not briefing directors on background information and rehashing old issues. To make your meetings more effective,
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Karen Peacey
Board Best Practices

Retirements looming? Best practices to attract younger directors

Recruitment and revitalization are some of the toughest challenges facing boards today. As a recent KPMG report reveals, 80% of S&P 500 boards have an average age in the 60s, and there is little difference by industry or company size. Older board members are retiring and needing new ones to take their place. And new members will be drawn from a workforce that, according to Leading with Vision, will be 75% Millennials
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Ian Warner
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Board Best Practices

Top 10 summer reads for boards of directors

Summer has arrived – hopefully with the luxury of some more reading time. To keep you inspired, we’ve compiled a list of some of the top recommended articles and books from the past year, plus some “oldies but goodies” to consider for your reading list. From topics covering leadership and collaboration to good governance, there’s something here for everyone. Here’s our 2019 list of 10 recommended summer reads for board chairs, board
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Dee Sicklesteel
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Board Best Practices

2019 Board Governance Survey of Canadian credit unions

How progressive are Canadian credit unions when it comes to board data security, diversity, and use of technology? Aprio conducted a benchmark survey at the National Conference for Canadian Credit Unions that revealed that the majority of Canadian credit unions identified their boards as being in the “progress stage” of implementing progressive board policies, with more defining themselves as frontrunners than early stage. Below are some highlights from the survey. Most Canadian
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Ian Warner
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Board Best Practices

Secure board portals prove helpful in mergers, disasters and beyond

This is in an excerpt of a blog originally published by CU Management and was authored by contributing writer, Richard H Gamble, freelance writer and member of Bellco Credit Union. Portions have been shortened for length. When Raychem and Tyco merged in 2016, CUES member Christine L. Petro was involved in merging the two credit unions the companies had sponsored.  “There were a lot of decisions to make that required board approval,”
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