CHAPTER SESSION: Board Bingo

Is your chapter functioning optimally? During this fun game of Bingo, you will gauge your chapter’s activities, as well as the activities of your board, to see how you could operate more efficiently. This includes how individuals can personally improve, as well as how they can help influence the best practices of the overall board.

Categories that will be addressed, along with sample consideration questions asked during the activity, include:

• Governance
1. Do board members understand their legal and fiduciary roles and responsibilities?
2. Does every member have a copy of the bylaws and are they followed?
• Finance
  1. Do board members review financials at every meeting?
  2. Does the board set, accept and monitor budget versus actual figures?
• Recruitment
  1. Does the chapter host at least one recruitment event each year?
  2. Does the chapter have a value proposition statement to share with the community and potential members?
• Member Engagement
  1. Does the board participate in thanking members/donors?
  2. Do you conduct annual membership surveys to gauge your members’ needs?
• Induction
1. Does the chapter follow up with individuals who did not accept the invitation, to find out why?
2. Do you plan a New Member Orientation immediately following the induction?

Additional best practices, along with resources for leaders of nonprofit board members, will be shared throughout the entirety of the presentation and activity. The bingo activity will ask attendees to mark off the squares if their chapter completes that best practice. The first attendee to fill two rows of best practices will be recognized, and will have an opportunity to share some of the activities that their chapter is completing. The sharing will continue after the bingo activity has been completed, to ensure that attendees learn as many best practices as possible in the allotted time, as well as have a chance to ask questions of the presenters.

Description/Overview: Is your chapter functioning optimally? During this fun game of Bingo, you will gauge your chapter’s activities, as well as the activities of your board, to see how you could operate more efficiently.

Organizers:  Katherine Rogers, BA, The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, Indianapolis, IN, USA and Julie Jones, MS, RN-BC, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, VT, USA

Moderators:  Jeanne Widener, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, School of Nursing, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA

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