One Hour of Training On Strategic Planning regarding Board Governance and Member Involvement:
1) What does the next Board look like?
A) How do Members see themselves?
i) We currently have 2 types of Memberships:
a) Annual Dues payers with voting rights
b) “Friends” who subscribe to newsletter but don’t pay dues and don’t have voting rights.
c) We need to make sure this is clear to members and friends and decide if we want to keep it that way.
B) Do we want to keep our Member Organization structure where members elect Board members annually or switch to Board members who serve until they resign?
2) How can we structure committees so that Members who don’t want to be on the Board can be actively involved?
3) How do we raise funds?
4) Strategies for growing OFRA membership and program participation.
5) How do we handle Intellectual Property (e.g. training materials)?
6) Other questions