Council Board Functions
Responsibility and Authority
The corporate board of directors is a fiduciary body, responsible for the governance of the council and stewardship of its assets. It is the only council body empowered to institute or change council policies, although it normally seeks membership input when doing so. The board is accountable to those bodies from which it derives its authority: the membership, the National Board of Girl Scouts of the USA, State, and local government, and the federal government. The board utilizes the council bylaws and the council articles of incorporation as a legal framework that guides their work.
Key Board Functions
The Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails is a strategic board. The board is mission-driven and future-focused. The board partners with the CEO by aligning goals and priorities and defining successful achievement of those goals and priorities. The board focuses on fund development and assuring that the council has the resources it needs to achieve the goals and priorities set by the board of directors.
The Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails engages in policy development and oversight. The board is the steward of all assets of the council and has fiduciary responsibility for oversight of council assets. The board operates with legal and ethical integrity and places the interest of the council, as a whole, above personal interests. The board links strategy with financial support and ensures infrastructure and internal organizational capacity can support goals and priorities.
The Board of Directors of the Girls Scouts of New Mexico Trails is knowledgeable and generative. Within a culture of mutual respect, the board utilizes and gathers relevant data, uses reflective learning through robust dialogue, debate, and the questioning of assumptions to make quality decisions.
The Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails promotes a culture of trust within the community that fosters transparency with donors, constituents, and members, provides opportunities for members to give voice, and seeks input before major policy decisions are made.