Board
Development
Literacy New York offers non-profit board development, technical assistance,
and workshops in the following areas:
Affiliate Board Development Workshops — workshops are available
based upon affiliate and/or LNY request.
Board Orientation — understanding the board role and responsibilities;
differentiating between board and staff functions; the role of LNY
in providing literacy services in the community.
Affiliate Board Consultations — A limited number of individual
board consultants are available as part of the LNY annual, regional
technical assistance program; consultations scheduled upon affiliate
and/or LNY request. Format includes LNY staff participating in a regularly
scheduled board meeting, committee meeting, or in a nontraditional
format to discuss a variety of organizational concerns.
Building Better Boards Initiative
Literacy
New York’s Building Better Boards Initiative will enhance
the leadership, governance and service delivery of the 41 local
literacy organizations in New York through a comprehensive board
self assessment
process.
Building Better Boards Project Goals:
- promote the understanding
of the need for effective nonprofit board governance in the local
literacy organizations (41 network
affiliates) throughout New York.
- build on the LNY
State Board’s own board self assessment process; build on LNY’s
exemplary work, continue to strengthen LNY’s governance practices
and serve as the leader and governance model for the affiliates throughout
the state.
- provide the opportunity
for local literacy affiliates in New York to assess their effectiveness
and capacity—with a special goal of maximizing the number of
organizations participating in the Board self-assessment. This will
be accomplished over a three year process.
- present and discuss
emerging insights, promising practices and related options in governance
so that Literacy New York leaders can understand, strategize and
decide on optimum governance practices and programs that build capacity
for their own organization.
