3.2. Board Job Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the Board is to ensure excellent organizational performance.

1. The Board will concentrate on its unique job, which is to:
1. Ensure that the organization is relevant and responsive to the community by monitoring the external environment and defining the appropriate direction through Ends policies. It will ensure that the organization achieves appropriate results for appropriate persons and an appropriate cost.  Ends policies will focus on the intended long-term impacts outside of the organization, not on the administrative or programmatic means of attaining those effects.
2. Ensure that the organization avoids unacceptable actions and situations, by defining such actions or situations in Executive Limitations policies.
3. Establish Governance Process policies that define how the Board conceives, carries out, and monitors its own tasks.
4. Establish Board-Management Delegation policies that describe the interactions and relationship between the Board of Directors and the Diversity Council staff and to define how power is delegated to the  Executive Director and its proper use is monitored.
5. Establish regular and effective ways of monitoring compliance with and the effectiveness of the Ends and Executive Limitations policies described in (1) and (2)  above.
2. The Board will monitor and assess its own process and performance by comparing board activities to the Governance Process and Board-Management Delegation policies described above.
3. The Board will nominate candidates for the Board who are able to participate constructively in the process of governing and ensure that new Board members receive excellent orientation in the Board's governing process.
4. The Board will hire the organization's Executive Director, appraise Executive Director performance, and reward competent performance or, if necessary, establish criteria for improvement or replace the individual.

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