Boards Are Broken, So Let’s Break and Remake Them

https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/01/05/boards-are-broken-so-lets-break-and-remake-them/

A small, not entirely complete list of the problems with boards:

• Boards are filled with people who have little or no expertise in the mission or the product of the organization.
• Boards gather only a handful of hours a quarter and usually don’t have enough time to do the things they say they will do.
• Boards give themselves ultimate decision-making power to determine the organization’s finances, policies, and future.
• Boards demand that we engage them, creating essentially another “program” for the staff to manage.
• Most boards do not reflect the communities we are trying to serve.
• Boards have no one to be accountable to.
• Boards decide who gets to be in their clubs.