Board of Directors Retreat Amerind Foundation

Board of Directors Retreat

Amerind Foundation

January 11, 2014 ● Facilitator: Clyde W. Kunz, CFRE

Clyde Kunz & Associates LLC

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?


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


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


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


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


Governance, not Management Decision-making by Consensus, not

Decision by Hierarchy

Attitude of Stewardship, not Ownership

The Role of the Board


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


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


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



To approve, periodically review, and accept responsibility for, all organizational policies



Financial / Audit / Investment Fundraising Marketing / Public Relations Board Governance Staffing / Volunteers Program-related Information Systems Property / Maintenance

Policies to Consider


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



To institute and contribute financially toward a development program

To participate actively in the organization’s fund development program



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


The world (and the nonprofit environment) is changing rapidly!

In which direction(s) do we go?

Planning for Our Future


Political

Environmental

5 External “Change Drivers”


Economic

Technological

Social

5 External “Change Drivers”


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…..


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


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….


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


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 ● [email protected]

www.ClydeKunz.com

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