What does a member of the Board of Directors do?

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Collectively, the Board:

  • Carries out strategic planning and decision-making.
  • Maintains long-term focus for the organization.
  • Monitors progress toward strategic goals.
  • Ensures organizational legal compliance.
  • Takes responsibility for organizational actions.
  • Has legal responsibility for the organization and its finances with the IRS.
  • Signs contracts, disburses funds, and transacts business of various kinds. Does strategic planning and decision-making in areas which include OTW’s mission, annual budget, projects, and priorities.

Individual Board members:

  • Attend weekly chat-based meetings.
  • Keep up to speed with relevant organizational communications and reports.
  • Act in good faith, in the best interests of OTW, as detailed in our Conflicts of Interest policy statement.

Most Board members also chair an OTW Committee, or are liaison to one or more Committees. Members of the Board often spend 20 or more hours per week on work for the organization, and a Board role can easily amount to the equivalent of a part-time job.