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Help Kids First Initiative create or revise one of their board’s operations to support effective and impactful governance.
Kids First Initiative
Auburn Hills, MI, USA
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Auburn Hills, MI, USA

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Posted October 10th

Board Operations & Systems

Project details

What we need
  • Assessment of existing board procedure, policy, set of guidelines, or system
  • Creation of one document outlining one procedure, policy, operations, or set of guidelines, for example: bylaws, board meeting procedure, succession planning guidelines, committee policies, board member orientation handbook, etc.
Additional details

Kids First is looking to refine its Board Operations.We are hoping to create policy, procedures, board member orientation handbook, etc as we move from working with our founding Board to recruitment of new members.

What we have in place
  • We currently have a few working documents, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have some past board members who are willing to support, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $10,298 , allowing us to support 8 STEAM education events in various parts of Michigan State, hire staff to support the efforts and pay stipends to youth participants .

We believe that good governance is key to organizational success. We are on a good path and want to continue our success but with a better plan of action for our Board. This project is vital to our progression.

Project plan

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Prep: Provide Current Materials
  • Volunteer Manager further contextualizes the specific procedure, system, or operations to be created or updated from this project
  • Volunteer Manager provides Volunteer with the board’s current list of board members, governance policies, procedures, and resources
  • Volunteer Manager shares longer term goals for their board
  • Volunteer Manager identifies which (if any) board members or other staff are available for interviews
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Milestone 1: Research
  • Volunteer reviews relevant materials regarding the board’s performance, operations, policies, and procedures
  • Volunteer connects with Volunteer Manager for a brainstorming/overview session
  • Volunteer Manager identifies challenges with current board dynamics and procedures
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Milestone 2: Evaluation
  • Volunteer conducts surveys and interviews with key stakeholders
  • Volunteer assesses challenges identified in research
  • Volunteer drafts the document outlining challenges assessed, suggestions for stronger operations, and recommended procedural changes
  • Volunteer Manager provides feedback on Volunteer’s document
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Milestone 3: Delivery of Document
  • Volunteer delivers final document outlining recommendations for more effective operations and language for procedural document
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Danielle J
Danielle J.

Operations Manager

Our mission

Our mission is to provide youth from underserved communities with the vital resources they need to live a productive life. Those resources are food, skills and information.

What we do

We engage kids with hands-on science, technology, engineering, arts and math activities so they can problem solve, drive social change in their communities, innovation in the country and be change makers in the world.