Role Description
The Foundation for Intentional Community (FIC)’s mission is to uplift, connect, and empower all those venturing to join, grow, and learn from intentional communities. As a Board member you will join us in fulfilling our mission.
Intentional communities hold an important place in the global movement towards just, resilient, and cooperative world. Serving on the Board means stewarding an organization that sees the structures and wisdom of community as both a means and an end to meeting the needs of people and planet.
The Board holds bottom line responsibility for the organization regarding decision-making, financial planning and management, and the overall health and well-being of the organization.
The Board is responsible for setting the direction for the organization, while the staff is responsible for implementation. The Board is responsible for hiring and firing the staff on the Executive Team.
Legally, nonprofit Boards have three responsibilities:
In particular, these require that the Board:
Board members should:
Estimated Time
Board Members ideally contribute 2-4 hours per month, including Zoom meetings.
Board members should:
The existing Board selects new members and renews current members with expiring terms from a list of candidates presented to it by the Nominating Committee. Members serve for staggered 3 year terms.
Organizational meetings are held once a year, for 3 to 4 days, plus travel time, at different communities across the continent. Video conferencing is encouraged any time a Board member cannot attend the org meetings in person.
Org meetings are where the Board meets to make important decisions about the direction of the organization, its priorities, its finances, as well as other central aspects of its staff and administration. They also include time for working sessions as well as socializing.
Strong, positive relationships are key to maintaining the cooperative culture of the FIC, and the org meetings are important times for developing this.
Zoom meetings are held monthly for approximately one and a half hours. Board members are expected to participate if their schedule permits.
Board members are expected to be on the Bo***@**.org and Ci****@**.org (Board+Staff) email list. Email traffic can vary greatly depending on the issues and activities at play. Board members are encouraged to participate in email discussions and decision-making, but are not required to except for specific instances when information or approval is required of all Board members.
We have officers that serve in their position primarily for legal compliance purposes, such as the President signing papers when a Board President signature is needed.
Board officers do not have additional power based on holding these positions. However, there are particular tasks that are required of the Board itself, and Board members are expected to share in fulfilling those tasks. One currently assigned task is Agenda Planning.
Current (2024) committees are: Ministry, Nominating Committee, Kozeny Award, and Fundraising.
The FIC does not, as a rule, pay for the travel costs or room and Board associated with Org meetings. Limited subsidies may be available, depending on available finances.
For questions, contact the Nominating Committee at:
Marty – Ma***@**.org
Harvey – Ha****@**.org
Crystal – Cr*****@**.org
Dave – Da**@**.org
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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