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Use Committees to Jump-Start Your School’s Board of Trustees…

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In today’s environment, where accountability and transparency are watchwords, how can your independent school’s board of trustees ensure that it meets its fiduciary responsibilities? How can it operate most effectively? How can it best serve your school and its constituencies? Board committees can help.

By working effectively through committees and task forces and ensuring that they have appropriate relationships with the entire board, your trustees can fulfill their important goals and obligations and do so in the most efficient way possible. This booklet describes the roles of committees and task forces and suggests ways your board can make best use of them. Sections address the fundamentals of board committees, standing or permanent board committees, task forces and other ad hoc committees, advisory committees, and committees that should be dissolved.

While each school must tailor its approach to its own needs, this booklet outlines what usually works best. A well-organized board, with appropriate committees and task forces, can do much to guide your institution, help it navigate the myriad issues it confronts, and ensure that it successfully reaches its goals, even — and perhaps especially — in challenging times.

This booklet is part of the Independent School Trustee Series, along with:

• Holding the Trust: An Independent School Trustee's Guide to Fiduciary Responsiblitites (also available in packets of 10) and
• A Trustee's Primer on the Strategic Process: A 10-Step Framework (also available in packets of 10).

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Governance and Leadership