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Orientation: Roles and responsibilities

Orientation: Roles and responsibilities. Missouri Association for Community Action. What does a board member do?. Collectively and individually, board members are legally and morally responsible for the activities of the organization. Human resources Planning Finance

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Orientation: Roles and responsibilities

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  1. Orientation:Roles and responsibilities Missouri Association for Community Action

  2. What does a board member do? • Collectively and individually, board members are legally and morally responsible for the activities of the organization. • Human resources • Planning • Finance • Organizational operations

  3. How do I… “Fully participate in the development, planning, implementation and evaluation”? • Development • Planning • Implementation • Evaluation

  4. Development • Needs assessment • Clarifying agency mission

  5. Planning • Long-range strategic planning • Annual planning

  6. Implementation • Agency program implementation • Fiscal controls

  7. Evaluation • Tripartite boards are encouraged to focus their attention on results in all phases of agency program activity • Boards should request, and be provided with, information concerning actual changes or improvements that have occurred among the clients and community as a result of agency assistance

  8. Ten basic responsibilities of non-profit boards • Determine the organization’s mission and purpose • Select the executive • Support the executive and review his or her performance • Ensure effective organizational planning • Ensure adequate resources

  9. Ten basic responsibilities of non-profit boards… con’t. • Manage resources effectively • Determine and monitor the organization’s programs and services • Enhance the organization’s public image • Serve as a court of appeal • Assess its own performance

  10. Succession planning • In the executive director’s absence, there should be at least one person designated to be responsible for the management of the agency.

  11. Fundraising • Fundraising is the process of soliciting and gathering grants and donations from: • Individuals • Businesses • Charitable foundations • Governmental agencies

  12. Standards of conduct • Duty of obedience • Duty of care • Duty of loyalty

  13. What is the relationship between the board and the executive director? • Boards establish policy, executive directors execute policy • Boards set agency mission, executive directors accomplish agency mission • Boards set performance targets, executive directors guide work to achieve targets • Boards and executive directors evaluate agency performance • Boards supervise direction only one employee – the executive director

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