Board Toolkit

The Board Tool Kit consists of documents that your board can create to guide and improve its ability to fulfill its leadership and governance responsibilities.

Your board can begin with whichever document addresses your most immediate needs, e.g. recruitment, board meeting effectiveness, financial management, fundraising, etc. The value of these tools lies in the explicit conversation that the board will have to reach these shared agreements, as well in the application of the resulting tool.

While there are basic responsibilities of all boards, there is on single way to meet these responsibilities that will fit every board. Each board must develop the Samples are given for some of the tools, but what is most important, is that members of the board work collaboratively with staff to develop the tool that will best fit with their needs, capacities, history and culture.

Caution: While working to develop one of these tools, you may very well find that the process will lead to unexpected improvements in other areas of Board Governance and Leadership.

Download Board Toolkit (Word Document): Check lists, an evaluation tool and more are included in this document.

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