IHM: Serving on Boards

Serving on Boards

Charitable organizations contribute substantially to our society. They educate our children, care for the sick, preserve our literature, art and music for us and future generations, house the homeless, protect the environment and much more. The fiduciaries of those charitable organizations are responsible for managing and preserving the charitable assets that benefit all of us.

Tri-IHM Board

Pictures (above) of the latest Tri-IHM Board Meeting. You can see pictures from the Tri-IHM Gathering in June 2006, hosted by the Monroe IHM congregation.

Marygrove Housing Board IHM Sisters and Associates serve on boards of non-profit organizations as a service and ministry to the broader community. Organizations whose mission and goals extend the vision of the IHM community are places where an IHM Sister or Associate may choose to be a board volunteer.

For the IHM sponsored institutions, those for which the IHM Congregation has canonical responsibility, being on the board is a way of keeping the connection between the community and the school while also assuming the fiduciary responsibility for the organization.

Pictured above: Marygrove Housing Board - L-R, Sr. Kathleen Schultz, IHM, Joyce Matthews (Manager of Theresa Maxis Apartments) and Sr. Margaret Alandt, IHM, during a recent board meeting.

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Links:

BoardSource, Inc. has a wide range of material designed to assist board members in carrying out their duties. Its nine pamphlet Governance Series, beginning with Ten Basic Responsibilities of Nonprofit Boards, is a source of basic information for board members and includes other suggested resources.

Board Café is an electronic newsletter for members of nonprofit boards of directors. Board Café offers a menu of ideas, information, opinion, news, and resources to help board members in carrying out the responsibilities of their board service.