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Board Assessment

Help Light of Loving Kindness 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.
Light of Loving Kindness
Chicago, IL, USA
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Light of Loving Kindness
Chicago, IL, USA

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Posted June 4th

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
Additional details

We have 3 board members. We know that we need to build our board strategically but I am unsure how to do this.

What we have in place
  • Full access to me and to my board of directors
How this will help
This project will save us $8,773 , allowing us to provide 75 teens with FREE access to the Self-Love Bootcamp 4 Teens! This makes me cry~

LOLK is growing faster than I can keep up. Our board is faithful, but not as effective as I'd like our board to be. We would like to grow the board, but don't know how to do this strategically.

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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Light of Loving Kindness
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Diversity & inclusion Human services Youth development
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Cassandra P
Cassandra P.

Executive Director & Founder

Our mission

Light of Loving Kindness is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that empowers a new generation of conscious leaders by providing access to streams of self-awareness, through specialized programming, mindfulness-based solutions, social-emotional learning, human connection, nature, art, and holistic wellness tools that cultivate the self-esteem and confidence needed to pursue their life's purpose.

What we do

We accomplish this thru workshops, education, training, and resiliency services at free to low cost to communities that are low-income, underserved, and trauma & violence affected.

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