Governance
Develop an effective governance body with the knowledge and skills to meet legal duties, support institutional advancement, and employ good governance practices
Outcomes
Good practice
Develop a governing board focused on oversight of mission, vision, policy, and organizational outcomes
Development
Build skills, knowledge and enthusiasm for fundraising and institutional advancement by Board members
Delegation
Support Board members in delegating operational issues to CEO and C-suite, while retaining institutional leadership
Legal duties
Understand statutory duties for governing bodies, including fiduciary responsibilities of care & loyalty
Viristar can help Board of Directors, Board of Trustees, Board of Regents, advisory board and other fiduciary body members understand and execute their governance duties skillfully and effectively.
Members of Boards of Directors hold very influential positions—but don’t always get to benefit from training on Board member roles and responsibilities and best governance practices.
This is where Viristar can provide skilled support.
Viristar’s training and consulting with Board members can help them understand their role in oversight of legal conformity, financial performance, CEO supervision, and establishing and advancing the organization’s mission and vision.
Viristar can help Board members skillfully avoid operations management, and use their leadership skills to help the organization identify and achieve its high-level strategic outcomes.
Training can include orientation to Carver Policy Governance, Servant Leadership, and other models.
Viristar can also help Boards become enthusiastic fundraising Boards, using trainings that build skills and enthusiasm for engaging an organization’s supporters.
Other consulting and training topics include committee structure, bylaws development, team-building, governance-level budget and financial management, and more.
Viristar can also help Board members understand and meet their duty of care, duty of loyalty, duty of obedience, conflict of interest and other legal duties, depending on jurisdiction.
The Viristar Advantage
Use Viristar’s knowledge of governance and strategic leadership to help your Board work effectively and achieve more.
Viristar’s staff have extensive experience sitting on and working with nonprofit and quasi-governmental boards in the higher education, philanthropic, environmental education, experiential learning, field science, environmental conservation, and outdoor adventure education fields.
