I recently offered a brain dump to an RCP asking about governance, and I came up with this list. What would you add or change?
- Staff and leadership:
- Coordinator (selected) and any other staff (facilitators)
- job description
- work plan
- body that oversees coordinator
- Host partner (identified in an MOU with core partners)/Fiscal agent
- Coordinator (selected) and any other staff (facilitators)
- Member/Partner Agreements and Guidelines for Actions
- Partner/member Agreement / MOU
- Data-sharing agreement
- Press release protocols
- Project endorsement guidelines
- Decision-making processes and bodies and admin (meetings, meeting notes and agendas)
- all partner meeting
- Consensus
- Thumbs up, down, sideways
- steering committee
- working groups
- chairs and co-chairs
- ad hoc groups
- GIS teams, etc.
- Development committees for collaborative fundraising campaigns
- all partner meeting
- Data
- Storing spatial data
- Internal documents library on Google Drive or Drop box
- Strategy
- Mission statement with goals and objectives
- Map of RCP boundaries
- Strategic conservation map
- Strategic action plan
- Identity
- Internet presence/own website
- logo
- letterhead
- Communication
- Internal
- Listservs for peer learning and sharing events
- Email and member lists to maintain
- Enews
- External
- Press release protocol
- Social media handles/accounts
- Internal
- Funding and fundraising
- Budget
- Methods and tools for negotiating and tracking donor outreach and grant seeking
- Transaction cost funds and protocols
- Minimum criteria for distributing funds
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