Non-Profit Board of Directors

In a non-profit agency, the governing board is a board of directors whose main function is to establish policies, regulations and bylaws consistent with the purposes of the agency. The board is responsible, also, for resolving management issues, selecting and evaluating the performance of the executive director, and functioning in an advisory capacity to the executive director.

The governing board’s responsibility is to act as stewards, accountable to the state’s government that granted the organization their respective charters, accountable to the federal government that granted tax-exempt status, and ultimately accountable to the public itself.