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Board of Directors Retreat
Amerind Foundation
January 11, 2014 ● Facilitator: Clyde W. Kunz, CFRE
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Read entire list of (374!) “values” statements
Identify (by underlining) the five you
consider to best represent your personal values
Go through the list again, identifying (by
circling) the five you consider to best represent the values of Amerind
What are our Values?
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Established in 1937, the Amerind Foundation and Museum seeks to foster and promote knowledge and understanding of the Native Peoples of the Americas through research, education, and conservation.
Our Mission
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Are my personal values aligned with the Amerind values we have identified?
Are our identified values “in sync” with the Amerind Mission?
How can we better incorporate the Amerind values in communications to our constituents?
For Consideration
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Mission Statement: a concise summary of what the organization does
Vision Statement: an idea of how the world will be different if the organization is completely successful at fulfilling its Mission.
Mission and Vision
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My life circumstances changed in such a way that I was suddenly required to move to a remote village in the Nepal for several years, where I had no telephone, email, or “snail mail” contact with anyone in the U.S.
Upon my return to the U.S. in the fall of 2020 I visited the Amerind Foundation, and was extremely impressed to learn that……
Individual Exercise
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Governance, not Management Decision-making by Consensus, not
Decision by Hierarchy
Attitude of Stewardship, not Ownership
The Role of the Board
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To appoint or remove the organization’s Director, including setting appropriate conditions of employment, compensation, and a process to support and assess job performance
10 Responsibilities of NPO Boards
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To annually adopt a balanced budget and to assume fiduciary responsibility for the organization
To partner with the CEO in strategic long-range planning
Responsibilities of NPO Boards
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To lend pro-bono professional expertise and other volunteer support as required in order to fulfill the organization’s mission
To serve actively as political and community advocates for the organization
Responsibilities of NPO Boards
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To approve, periodically review, and accept responsibility for, all organizational policies
Responsibilities of NPO Boards
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Financial / Audit / Investment Fundraising Marketing / Public Relations Board Governance Staffing / Volunteers Program-related Information Systems Property / Maintenance
Policies to Consider
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To approve, periodically review, and accept responsibility for, all organizational policies
To perpetuate Board membership by recruiting and training new members and developing future leadership
To periodically undertakeassessments of the performanceof the board itself
Responsibilities of NPO Boards
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To institute and contribute financially toward a development program
To participate actively in the organization’s fund development program
Responsibilities of NPO Boards
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Does each Amerind Board member have a job description?
If so, is each of the 9 “Responsibilities of Board Members” included in that job description? (If not, could they be used as a model for creating one?)
For Consideration
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The world (and the nonprofit environment) is changing rapidly!
In which direction(s) do we go?
Planning for Our Future
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Political
Environmental
5 External “Change Drivers”
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Economic
Technological
Social
5 External “Change Drivers”
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Select a spokesperson, then think about the “change driver” you have been assigned
Using “brain-storming” make a list of all the possible directions that change driver might take society in the next 5-10 years
Discuss your list and determine which 1 or 2 of the possible directions are most likely, and how they might affect the Amerind Foundation
Working in Groups…..
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Do you agree with each groups’ assessments?
If not, how else might the effects of the “change drivers” play out?
How does the Amerind prepare for those effects?
Group Discussion
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Recruitment & training of new Board members
Recruitment & retention of staff Programs / Research / Scholarship Advocacy Fundraising and/or earned income Marketing / public relations / public
awareness Finances & budgeting Facilities / Collections
How Will Change Impact….
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Simple numeric analysis (using 1-10 scale) of various Amerind activities and/or programs
Work in 4 groups
Discuss each line item for the columns your group has been assigned. Using a numeric scale of 1-10, come to a consensus as to what numeric score each should receive.
Snapshot Analysis
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What might this exercise indicate about the “weight” of various programs?
Which of Amerind’s efforts should receive
the most attention?
How does identifying those areas of focus impact the hiring of a new Director?
For Consideration
Thank You!
Clyde W. Kunz, CFRE ● (520) 977-4019 ● Kunz@Cox.net
www.ClydeKunz.com
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