Model Board Policies

(22 pages) Among the most important governance documents available to any board is its policy book, the combined wisdom and experience of past boards.

This Model Board Policies publication provides you with 100 ready-to-use sample policy texts grouped under 15 discipline categories such as “organization decision making, finance, or board/executive committee meetings, etc.” The proposed texts provide an excellent starting point for your board in refining its own policy document.

With such policies employed as an integral part of your board’s governance process, volunteer directors operate under an assuring consistency of approach, your Modus Operandi, so to speak, unless and until it is agreed certain practices should be revisited. The expectation that your directors will have command of the policies should help draw them closer as the governance team.