Committees
Board Member Recruitment
Please read Selection Process to see a description of the steps to be taken to select new board members. This committee will serve as the point people in carrying out these steps.
Board members are recruited via personal recommendations, nominations, and particularly positive impressions from past project leaders. The board application will not be available online publicly but is instead sent individually to recommended people, those who have been nominated, and impressive leaders from projects that your program funded in the past.
This committee’s main task is to identify and follow up with potential board members.
To identify potential new board members, this committee sends out the “Email – New Board Member Solicitation” to trusted groups and teachers. The committee can choose to require recipients of this email to fill out an official “Board New Member Nomination Form” if they wish to recommend someone for the board, but note that this requirement might deter some individuals from recommending someone. An easier way is to make the nomination form optional and allow recommenders to simply suggest a person by name and, with the consent of the recommended person, put the board in contact with that person. The committee can then send them an invitation to apply to the board along with the “Board New Member Application” form, the “Board Charter,” and the board meeting schedule for the next year.
The board can then periodically follow up with these applicants, asking if they have any questions about what it means to be on the board, what the time commitment is, or how to apply. A reminder email should also be sent to applicants in the few days before the application is due.
After the board application deadline, the committee will send all received applications to the rest of the board for review. If more information is needed about the applicants before making a decision about whether or not to accept the applicant to the board, an informal meeting can be set up during which the applicant and a few members of the board recruitment committee can meet in a public place and chat. The committee members will ask questions on behalf of the board, and the applicant can ask the committee members any remaining questions about the board.
After this, the interviewing committee members report back to the rest of the board with the answers that the applicant provided and a recommendation on approving the applicant for the board, approving the applicant for a liaison position, or denying the applicant. Each applicant will then be sent an email with their decision (“To Board Applicants – Welcome to the Board,” “To Board Applicants – Liaison Position Offering,” or “To Board Applicants – Application Rejected,” respectively).
This committee will then help to match new board members with more experienced board member mentors, matching youth with youth and adults with adults.
Please read Selection Process to see a description of the steps to be taken to select new board members. This committee will serve as the point people in carrying out these steps.
Board members are recruited via personal recommendations, nominations, and particularly positive impressions from past project leaders. The board application will not be available online publicly but is instead sent individually to recommended people, those who have been nominated, and impressive leaders from projects that your program funded in the past.
This committee’s main task is to identify and follow up with potential board members.
To identify potential new board members, this committee sends out the “Email – New Board Member Solicitation” to trusted groups and teachers. The committee can choose to require recipients of this email to fill out an official “Board New Member Nomination Form” if they wish to recommend someone for the board, but note that this requirement might deter some individuals from recommending someone. An easier way is to make the nomination form optional and allow recommenders to simply suggest a person by name and, with the consent of the recommended person, put the board in contact with that person. The committee can then send them an invitation to apply to the board along with the “Board New Member Application” form, the “Board Charter,” and the board meeting schedule for the next year.
The board can then periodically follow up with these applicants, asking if they have any questions about what it means to be on the board, what the time commitment is, or how to apply. A reminder email should also be sent to applicants in the few days before the application is due.
After the board application deadline, the committee will send all received applications to the rest of the board for review. If more information is needed about the applicants before making a decision about whether or not to accept the applicant to the board, an informal meeting can be set up during which the applicant and a few members of the board recruitment committee can meet in a public place and chat. The committee members will ask questions on behalf of the board, and the applicant can ask the committee members any remaining questions about the board.
After this, the interviewing committee members report back to the rest of the board with the answers that the applicant provided and a recommendation on approving the applicant for the board, approving the applicant for a liaison position, or denying the applicant. Each applicant will then be sent an email with their decision (“To Board Applicants – Welcome to the Board,” “To Board Applicants – Liaison Position Offering,” or “To Board Applicants – Application Rejected,” respectively).
This committee will then help to match new board members with more experienced board member mentors, matching youth with youth and adults with adults.
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