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References: Establishing an Oversight Board and Inventory System

  1. Board of directors - Wikipedia - Explains the role and legal responsibilities of a governing board, the foundation for this chapter's oversight-board and board-roles-and-duties sections.

  2. Succession planning - Wikipedia - Covers how organizations prepare for planned leadership transitions, the concept behind this chapter's succession-planning section.

  3. Barcode - Wikipedia - Explains how machine-readable codes, including QR codes, encode data for scanning, the technology behind this chapter's inventory-sticker-printing and QR-code-on-kits sections.

  4. Boards That Make a Difference (3rd Edition) - John Carver - Jossey-Bass - Carver's Policy Governance model, distinguishing board oversight from day-to-day operations, is the direct framework behind this chapter's oversight-board-roles-and-duties section.

  5. Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change - William Bridges - Da Capo Lifelong Books - Bridges is widely credited with the standard framework for navigating organizational transitions, the reasoning behind this chapter's succession-planning and board-term-limits sections.

  6. Board Member Roles and Responsibilities - BoardSource - Defines the distinct duties of an oversight board's officers and members, directly supporting this chapter's board-roles-and-duties section.

  7. How to Use QR Codes for Asset Management - Sortly - Explains how QR codes speed up checkout and reduce errors compared to manual logs, directly supporting this chapter's equipment-checkout-system and asset-tagging-process sections.

  8. Free Equipment Inventory Templates & Spreadsheets - Smartsheet - Spreadsheet layouts adaptable into an inventory-audit and equipment-return-tracking log, supporting this chapter's club-inventory-system section.

  9. Start a Club - Girls Who Code - A national network's approach to recruiting and screening mentors at scale, supporting this chapter's advanced-mentor-recruiting section.

  10. Elements of Effective Practice for Mentoring - MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership - Standards for finding and vetting qualified mentors, directly supporting this chapter's finding-qualified-mentors section.