What do board members do?

What responsibilities do board members typically have?

• For example, if someone sits on the board of a non-profit organization what kinds of things would they be expected to do?

• Answer:

  It depends upon their title....attending board meetings, the secretary is responsible for not taking and publication of meeting minutes; financial officier, should have a very detailed description about how money comes in/out, decisions about what to fund.....may have a marketing person, responsible for brochures, newsletter; grant writer....writing/submitting monies. You also need a description of business processes, how decisions will be made, how many members need to be present in order to pass a resolution, etc. The non-profit I helped develop had a booklet we wrote desribing these things...about 20 pages. You might want to go to a non-profit near you and ask if they could share this info....it is public info.