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Board Assessment

Help Viva Farms gain an understanding of how their board is performing and how it could improve in areas like governance practices, stewardship, revenue generation, and executive management.
Viva Farms
Mount Vernon, WA, USA
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Mount Vernon, WA, USA

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Posted February 6th

Board Assessment

Project details

What we need
  • 1-2 page summary of takeaways and trends from interviewing key individuals (no more than 8 interviews total)
  • Identification of the board’s strengths and recommendations for areas of improvement for board members collectively and individually
What we have in place
  • We currently have an established board, record of minutes, and agendas, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have our bylaws and articles of incorporation, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $8,773 , allowing us to spend our limited resources better supporting beginning family farmers with access to land, equipment, infrastructure, capital, and markets (The Essentials).

As a nonprofit we rely on our board of directors for guidance and to act in a way that reinforces our vision. We hope to have our bylaws and articles of incorporation reviewed and updated. This will allow us to implement best practices with our board members in hopes to have a highly functioning board adhering solely to their fiduciary duty. With a knowledgeable board that is able to support and engage with Viva Farms in an impactful way, we expect to be able to better serve our beginning family farmers.

Project plan

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Prep: Provide Current Materials
  • Volunteer Manager provides Professional with past reviews or board performance evaluations, if any
  • Volunteer Manager communicates an overview of board’s governance practices, stewardship, membership, revenue generation, and executive management
  • Volunteer Manager outlines 1-2 specific areas of focus for the evaluation
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Milestone 1: Research
  • Professional connects with Volunteer Manager for a brainstorming/overview session to better understand current situation and desired outcomes
  • Professional and Volunteer Manager mutually agree on key individuals to interview or survey (no more than 8 total, including Executive Director, Board Chair, select board members, and key staff)
  • Professional drafts survey and/or interview questions for the list created above
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Milestone 2: Interviews and Evaluation
  • Professional conducts surveys and/or interviews with mutually agreed upon list from above
  • Professional reviews any relevant materials regarding the board’s performance (e.g. bylaws, previous board reviews or assessments, previous or current strategic plans)
  • Professional synthesizes findings from surveys and/or interviews into a 1-2 page outline
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Milestone 3: Delivery of Board Assessment
  • Professional drafts a 1-3 page document outlining the overview and suggested areas of improvement based on their findings
  • Volunteer Manager reviews document
  • Professional delivers a finalized document and/or presentation to the Volunteer Manager, outlining their key findings and recommendations, including suggested areas of improvement
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Viva Farms
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Michael F.

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Our mission

Viva Farms seeks to preserve a sustainable farming culture and create a strong and just food economy by supporting aspiring farmers with bilingual training in sustainable organic farming, and access to land, infrastructure, equipment, marketing and capital.

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