My theme --- if you only get 12 hours a year from a board member, what the heck are you doing with those twelve hours?! Is this commitment doled out by a) 3 hour slots in quarterly board meetings? b) 1+ hours 12 months a year? c) 1.5 hours every other month? d) 1+ hours 10 months of the year? Yeah, some of these don't actually come out to exactly 12 hours, but it's close enough.
I mention this, because when I meet with a board to talk about how to really build strategies and purpose that will "save the world", I have to ask them how many hours a year they are willing to commit to do this, eliminate homelessness, feed the hungry, stop drug abuse, save the animals, etc?
If you can count on 12 hours a year --- how would you spend your board meetings?
Again, if you only have 12 hours from anyone board member, what would you choose to have them do during those hours.
And if consider this, as we will over the next few weeks, then you may be able to build a board, build an organization that actually moves the marker an inch or so on your mission to save whatever world you claim in your mission.
