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Table of Contents
(What goes into a board manual?)
Board Members
a) Names and Contact Information
b) Short Bios
c) Past Board Members
d) Advisory Board
e) How Should a Board be Structured?
f) Finding Effective Board Members - A
Guide
Board Responsibilities
a) Board Responsibilities
b) Signed Board Member Agreements
c) Board President Description
d) “All Hands on Board”
Executive Director
a) Resume
b) Job Descriptions
History of VADP
a) Narrative History
b) 1995 (First) Annual Report
c) Prior By-laws & Articles
Organizational Documents
a) By-laws
b) Articles of Incorporation
c) Annual Report filed with SCC
d) Guide on what should be included in By-
laws & Articles
Strategic Framework
a) Statement of Purpose
b) Strategic Plan (empty)
c) Annual Operating Plan (empty)
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Policies - Adopted as Needed
a) Intro. To Organizational Docs. and Policies
b) Operations Policy Regarding Meeting
Minutes
c) Simplified Roberts Rules of Order (By-law §
2.3)
d) Communications Policy Sample
e) Conflict of Interest Policy Sample
f) Fundraising Policy Sample
g) Legal Assistance Information
h) D&O Insurance Information
Finances
a) Annual Budget
b) Audit Report (empty)
c) IRS Form 990-EZ
d) Accountant Contact Info.
e) “Financials Made Easy”
Fundraising
a) Major Donors
b) Fundraising Call List Assigning Board
Members
c) Grassroots Fundraising
d) “How Not to Ask for Money
e) Ten Tips on Fundraising
Annual Calendar
Meetings
a) Minutes (most recent on top)
b) “Meetings” A Short Guide
c) The “Consent Agenda” - How to Runa
Meeting
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