Member-at- Board of Directors

Mission

To promote acceptance and celebrate diversity by bringing together musicians from across Southern California for performance and educational opportunities that embrace equality, inclusion, and the love of music.

The Board of the Directors of the Freedom Band Foundation of Los Angeles (“Directors”) have three primary legal duties known as the “duty of care,” “duty of loyalty,” and “duty of obedience.”

• Duty of Care: Take care of the nonprofit by ensuring prudent use of all assets, including facility, people, and good will;
• Duty of Loyalty: Ensure that the nonprofit’s activities and transactions are, first and foremost, advancing its mission;
  Recognize and disclose conflicts of interest;
  Make decisions that are in the best interest of the nonprofit corporation; not in the best interest of the individual board member (or any other individual or for-profit entity).
• Duty of Obedience: Ensure that the nonprofit obeys applicable laws and regulations; follows its own bylaws; and that the nonprofit adheres to its stated corporate purposes/mission.

Directors serve as the fiduciaries who steer the organization and its associated performance groups towards a sustainable future by adopting sound, ethical, and legal governance and financial management policies, as well as by making sure the nonprofit has adequate resources to advance its mission.

Moreover, directors are responsible for defining the organization’s mission, providing overall leadership and strategic direction to the organization, and ensuring the financial vitality and longevity of the organization. The board should:

As defined in Article 3 Section 3:
Duties of the Bylaws, it shall be the duty of the directors to:

The board as an entity is responsible for:

• Ensuring the organization operates within legal and ethical guidelines, adhering to all relevant regulations
• Determining the mission of the organization and understanding its collective purpose
• Developing and implementing the organization’s strategic plan, setting goals and priorities aligned with the mission.
• Monitoring the organization’s financial health, reviewing budgets, approving expenditures, and ensuring proper financial reporting.
• Assessing its own performance as the governing body of the organization.
• Hire, supervise, and evaluate the performance of the executive director.

Each individual director on the board is responsible for:

• Attending board meetings as required and participate in board discussions and vote on critical decisions regarding the organization’s operations
• Serving as active advocates and ambassadors for the organization
• Identifying and securing financial resources and partnerships necessary for the organization to advance its mission or actively participating in fundraising initiatives
• Leveraging connections, networks, and resources to develop collective action to achieve the organization’s mission
• Engaging in learning opportunities to better understand the community the organization serves
• Disclosing any potential conflicts of interest before or during any meetings
• Identifying and recruiting qualified individuals to join the board

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