The ICCS Board of Directors must be dedicated to helping serve members of the community who are experiencing the results of poverty. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Ability to: listen, analyze, think clearly and creatively, work well with people individually and in a group.
- Willingness to: prepare for and attend board and committee meetings, ask questions, take responsibility and follow through on a given assignment, contribute personal and financial resources in a generous way according to circumstances, open doors in the community, evaluate self.
- Development of certain skills, if not already possessed, such as: cultivate and solicit funds, cultivate and recruit board members and other volunteers, read and understand financial statements, learn more about the program area of the organization.
- Possess: honesty, sensitivity to and tolerance of differing views, a friendly, responsive and patient approach, community-building skills, personal integrity, a developed sense of values, concern for your nonprofit’s development, and a sense of humor.
Board Member Job Description
- Regularly attend board meetings and important related meetings
- Make a serious commitment to participate actively in committee work.
- Volunteer for and willingly accept assignments and complete them thoroughly and on time.
- Stay informed about board and committee issues, prepare for meetings, review and comment on
- minutes and reports.
- Get to know other board members and build a collegial working relationship that contributes to
- consensus.
- Active participant in the board’s annual evaluation and planning process.
- Participate in fundraising for the organization.