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Latest revision as of 10:27, 26 October 2011
This falls under the purview of the Board Recruitment/Development committee, created in October 2009.
Materials for potential new board members
Getting started, based on some thoughts from a brainstorm about materials and procedures that might help welcome and acclimatize new board members.
Connecting with people
The best format for this may be yet another checklist, after the style of the Board Election Checklist, Hiring Checklist, various orientation checklists
- A tour with current board or staff
- Meeting with board or staff members
- Visit council meeting (if for a regular election, should be July or August)
- Visit staff meeting?
Organizational information
- Mission
- Programs
- Structure, including maybe some narrative on structure evolution.
- Staff Categories or do these belong after election?
- Standing Staff Committees or do these belong after election? --Ideath 23:38, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
- History and landmark decisions
- Organizational stats. Budget; current funding mix; volunteer numbers (active, retention, rate of change); staff numbers (which kinds, compensation); recycling, reuse, and grants numbers. Some of this of course already exists, and will need maintenance.
- Commitment entailed (see New Director Agreement).
- Quarterly board meetings
- Maintaining council membership (meets monthly, directors should strive to attend majority of meetings)
- Volunteering for FG in some capacity (variable time commitment)
- Financial support.
- Board committee membership expected[1]. Time commitment would vary.
- Profiles of current board members
- Current goals and priorities of the board
Materials for newly selected board members
- Conflict of interest form
- FG DVD
- New Director Agreement
- Contact info for other board members
- Free Geek email address
- Signup for directors and council email lists
- Board orientation manual
TO DO
- revise the Board Election Checklist & report to council
- find existing materials for mission, structure, history parts; write missing/connective material
- find existing materials for statistical parts, figure out best place for them to live