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PARKS &
WILDLIFE
FOUNDATION Phone:
605-773-4503
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GUIDELINES FOR RECRUITING
NEW BOARD MEMBERS
NOVEMBER 2000
- Maintain an up-to date list of potential board candidates, including particular skills they can bring to the Foundation. All board members are responsible for submitting names for the list.
- Develop a Board Member Application Form for prospective new board members. The form should solicit information about the potential new member, including biographical information, why they want to join this board, what they hope to bring to the board, what they would like to get from their board membership and any questions they might have.
- In accordance with specific scheduling requirements of the Foundation’s By-Laws and/or after strategic planning, determine the major strategic goals of the Foundation and the Executive Director to identify what skills would be highly useful to the board. Example: For marketing program development the Board would need people with promotional/presentation/advertising skills.
- Reference the list of potential candidates to recruit for board membership, select appropriate individuals to meet the needs of the Foundation and arrange to meet with them.
- Prospective board members should meet with the board president and/or the executive director, hear an overview of the Foundation and receive relevant Foundation material describing the Foundation’s products or services, receive a board member job description and a board member application form. The prospective new member should hear about how the Foundation orients new members. Provide names of several board members whom the prospective new member might contact with any questions.
- Identify if there are any potential conflicts of interest with the candidate such as membership in a competing organization or vendor of the organization.
- Invite the prospective new member to a board meeting. Notify current board members that a potential new member will be attending.
- Contact the potential new member after the meeting and determine if they have an interest in joining the board. If so, solicit their completed board member application and provide all applications to the board for their review and election.
- Notify new members and provide them with a schedule of meetings and copies of relevant documents for members of the Board of Directors.