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Board Assessment

Help Real Food Share 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.
Real Food Share
Newtown, CT, USA
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Newtown, CT, USA

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Posted July 20th

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Board Assessment

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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

Real Food Share is a project connecting regional food pantries with fresh, locally grown food. Our board currently consists of five members. The founding four are all directly involved in the day-to-day operations.

Now in our third year, we have reached a point of growth where I would like to learn more about productive board function and establish a board that can assist in taking our project to where we want to go.

What we have in place
  • We currently have anything you need, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have made this a priority, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $8,773 , allowing us to support interns, pay for insurance, pay for infrastructure, social media expenses, seeds, tools, gas and more.

We are on pace to donate over 30K pounds of fresh local produce to 10 different food pantries and foodservice organizations. We run two community gardens and network with 12 local farms to collect surplus for donation. We have 11 interns (paid through us and work-study college stipends), a full-size delivery van, and an incredible team of volunteers.

I need help organizing a board that can drive expansion, funding, support, and helps guide us out of the start-up phase.

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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Real Food Share
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Sean F
Sean F.

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Our mission

Real Food Share is creating a sustainable local food network in Connecticut that will serve as a pathway to ending hunger in our communities.

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